Anghel v. Italy (Application No. 5968/09)
The proceedings concerned a child born in Romania in March 2003. Following the birth, the mother occasionally worked in Italy for short periods of time. In 2005, after she had obtained a regular job there, the father agreed for the child to travel to Italy with the mother. A formal notarial deed of 26 April […]
CA Paris, 5 juillet 2013, No de RG 13-11740
The case concerned a child born in Portugal in 2006 to Portuguese married parents. In May 2010, a Portuguese court decreed the parents’ divorce and approved their agreement for the settlement of parental responsibilities, whereby the child was entrusted to the care and custody of the mother, with parental responsibility being exercised jointly. On 26 […]
Cass Civ 1?re, 10 juillet 2013, No de RG 13-14562
The case concerned four children born between 2000 and 2005 to married parents. Pursuant to the parents’ divorce in 2007, the family members had remained resident in Belgium and the children under shared custody, spending one week with one parent and the next with the other, and the parents had joint parental authority. In September […]
Headifen v. Harker 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80819 (W.D. Tex., 2013)
The proceedings concerned a child who was born in the United States of America in August 2008 and adopted shortly thereafter. The adoptive parents had married in 2005. The father was a New Zealand national, the mother South African. Both were naturalised citizens of the United States of America. The family moved to New Zealand […]
E.S. s/ Reintegro de hijo
The child was born in 2006 in Amsterdam. His parents had celebrated a Registered Union in 2005 in the Amsterdam Civil Registry, which was dissolved by Court order on 4 April 2007. At the request of the father, a provisional and supervised visitation order was settled by Dutch authorities; the father’s contact was extended by […]
Guzzo v. Cristofano, 719 F.3d 100 (2nd Cir. 2013)
The proceedings concerned a child born in September 2006 to an Italian father and an American mother. The parents had married before the birth, but had maintained their respective residences in Italy and New York. In 2006 and 2007, the parents visited each other on numerous occasions. In December 2007, they agreed that mother and […]
Sofia Povse and Doris Povse v. Austria (Application No 3890/11)
The application related to a child born in December 2006. The parents were not married and lived together in Italy until January 2008. Under Italian law, they shared custody of the child. When the parents separated, the mother took the child from the family home. Although the father obtained an order preventing the mother from […]
Hofmann v. Sender, 716 F.3d 282 (2d Cir. 2013)
The proceedings concerned children born in Canada, in January 2009 and July 2011, to an American mother and a Canadian father. The parents were married, but the marriage had difficulties. Following the birth of the first child the mother spent time in New York with her parents. The father joined them there for two months. […]
L.R.C., a favor de I.C.R., y E.C.R., contra el Juzgado de Ni?ez y Adolescencia y El Tribunal de Familia
This case concerns two girls born in March 2001 and in January 2006 in the United States of America, where they were raised, attended school and developed a social network. In July 2011, the girls entered Costa Rica and from then on they started attending school there. In November 2011, the father requested the return […]
G.A.G.R. v. T.D.W., 2013 BCSC 586