Cass Civ 1?re 25 f?vrier 2009, N? de pourvoi 08-18126

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The application was about two children born in South Africa. Following the parents’ divorce, the mother was awarded custody of the children and the father visitation rights. The mother’s right of custody was, however, limited insofar as she was obliged to refer to a court if she wished to migrate. The mother took the children […]

Re F. (A Child) [2009] EWCA Civ 416

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a boy, was aged eight at the date of the alleged wrongful removal. He was born in Poland to Polish parents and had always lived in Poland. The parents divorced in 2006 and thereafter proceedings were commenced in Poland in respect of the child, resulting in an order dated July 2007, granting the […]

Neulinger and Shuruk v. Switzerland (Application No 41615/07)

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The application related to a child born in Israel in 2003 to a Swiss mother and an Israeli father. The parents had married in Israel in 2001. After the birth the mother alleged that the father had joined a radical, ultra-orthodox Jewish sect. Given her fears that the father would take the child abroad to […]

Family Advocate, Cape Town and Another v. E.M.

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The application related to a child born in 2004 to a British father and a South African mother. The parents had married in South Africa. The child was born in the United Kingdom and lived there with the parents until September 2007, when the mother took her to South Africa for an agreed vacation. After […]

Cass Civ 1?re 17 D?cembre 2008, N? de pourvoi 07-15393

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

R?sidence habituelle – art. 3 La m?re indiquait que la Cour d’appel n’avait pas caract?ris? que la r?sidence habituelle de l’enfant, qui avait souvent effectu? des s?jours plus ou moins longs en France, ?tait aux Pays-Bas. La Cour de cassation observa que la Cour d’appel avait not? que l’enfant ?tait n? aux Pays-Bas d’un p?re […]

Rinau v. Rinau (C-195/08 PPU)

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The application related to a child born in Germany on 11 January 2005. Shortly after the birth the parents separated with the child remaining with her mother. In July 2006 the father agreed to the mother taking the child to Lithuania for a two week vacation. The child was not returned. After being awarded custody […]

Carlson v. Switzerland, Requ?te no 49492/06

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Aims of the Convention – Preamble, Arts 1 and 2 The father did not seek to challenge the legal basis for the non-return order but the manner in which his return petition had been dealt with, particularly errors and delays he alleged to have suffered at the hands of the district court in Baden. The […]

Cannock v. Fleguel, [2008] O.J. NO. 4480

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a boy, was born in Ontario in June 2006. The Australian father did not secure entry to the country because of a criminal record. When the child was approximately five weeks old the mother returned with him to Australia, where they lived with the father until the parents separated in October 2007. In […]

B-2346-08

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a girl, was almost 1 year old at the time of the alleged wrongful removal. She was born in France in July 2007, where she lived with her parents. The parents were not married, but the father recognized the fatherhood and they had joint custody. The mother, a Danish citizen, kept her apartment […]