CA Toulouse, 28 novembre 2006, No de RG 1121
The child at issue is a girl born in June 2000. The family lived in Montr?al, Canada. After their separation, the parents decided that the mother would have physical custody of the child. That agreement was upheld by the courts in November 2005. On 18 January 2006 the mother took the child to France. The […]
CA Paris, 19 octobre 2006, No de RG 06/12398
Settlement of the Child – Art. 12(2) – Procedural Matters It should be noted that the Appeal Court allocated the responsibility for costs of the proceedings to the French Central Authority.
Cass Civ 1?re, 14 novembre 2006, No de RG 05-15692
Habitual Residence – Art. 3 The Cour de cassation noted that the Cour d’appel had been able to deduce from the evidence of several witnesses that the children were habitually resident in England. The residence of the mother and children there was not provisional in nature; the mother was in paid employment and the children […]
CA Reims, 4 juillet 2006, No de RG 05/02155
The case concerned a child born in April 2003 in the Netherlands where the family lived. On January 10, 2005, the parents divorced in Morocco (their country of origin); the father returned to the Netherlands, while the mother went to live in Troyes, France with the child. On April 15, the Dutch Central Authority issued […]
CA Orl?ans, 27 juin 2006, No de RG 06/01084
La demande concernait trois enfants n?s ? New York en 1990, 1993 et 1994. A la suite du divorce des parents en 2003, la garde fut attribu?e ? la m?re dont la r?sidence habituelle ?tait d?sormais en Californie. Les enfants passaient r?guli?rement leurs vacances d’?t? chez leurs grands-parents paternels en France. A la fin de […]
Vigreux v. Michel [2006] EWCA Civ 630
The child, a boy, was removed from France to England on 14 August 2005, the day of his 14th birthday. The parents, who were not married, were separated. In January 2002 a French court had made an order for joint parental responsibility with the mother having residence, the father contact. The father appealed this order, […]
CA Paris, 30 mai 2006, No de RG 06/00395
Grave Risk – Art. 13(1)(b) The father argued that when his daughter was aged 7 she had been the victim of rape at the family residence by her mother’s live-in partner. He stated that he had filed a complaint in that regard in September 2004 in France. The Court found that the evidence produced by […]
CA Rouen, 9 mars 2006, No de RG 05/04340
L’affaire concernait un petit gar?on n? au Mexique en 2004. Ses parents ?taient mari?s et vivaient au Mexique. Le 7 juin 2005, la m?re alla en France avec l’enfant. Un mois plus tard, elle demanda le divorce. Le p?re demanda le retour de lenfant. Le 15 novembre 2005, le tribunal de grande instance de Rouen […]
Cass Civ 1?re, 13 juillet 2005, No de RG 05-10519
Grave Risk – Art. 13(1)(b) The Cour de cassation affirmed that Article 13(1)(b) could not give rise to an exception to an immediate return unless there was a risk of grave harm or the existence of an intolerable situation. It further recognised that Article 3(1) of the UNCRC had direct application in French law and […]
Cass Civ 1?re, 14 juin 2005, No de RG 04-16942
The child, a girl, was aged 2 _ at the date of the alleged wrongful retention. The parents were married and lived in the United States. In March 2003 the mother took the child to France for a vacation. On 31 March 2003 the mother informed the father that she did not intend to return. […]