Order issued by Koblenz Higher Regional Court ? 13 UF 67/20

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child was born in Trier, Germany, in March 2018. In May 2018, the father acknowledged paternity of the child. In early July 2018, the family moved to Spain and from December 2018 onwards, rented an apartment in Madrid. The family registered in the Register of Residents, enrolled the child in preschool and also took […]

X v Y

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The mother and father met in 2016 in Spain. At that time the father was renting an apartment in Spain and had de-registered from the Municipal Personal Records Database in the Netherlands in 2014. The father lead an international (business) life. For a while, the mother took care of the father’s two daughters from his […]

Decision of the Federal Supreme Court 5A_666/2017 of 27 September 2017

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Shortly after the birth of the child in Switzerland, the unmarried parents moved to Spain, where they lived in a shared household for several years. In 2011, the parents separated and had alternating custody. At the end of January / beginning of February 2016, the mother moved with the child to Switzerland without the father’s […]

Thompson v. Thompson

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The parents are a British father and a Russian mother who were married and who lived and worked in Spain since 2009. The child lived with her parents in Spain from birth (in July 2013) until her mother removed her to Russia in April 2016, without the father’s knowledge or consent. The 1980 Hague Child […]

A. C. C. s/ Restituci?n Internacional

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The case is about a girl who lived in Spain. Her parents were separated, and on 10 April 2014 they entered into an agreement on the days the child would be with each of them, authorising the father to travel with the child once a year to Ecuador for no longer than a month. On […]

XX c/ ZZ s/ reintegro de hijos

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Aims of the Convention – Preamble, Arts 1 and 2 The Court referred to the Explanatory Report to the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention by Professor Perez-Vera and remarked that the Convention, as well as the Uruguayan law that regulates these proceedings, stands on the principle of the best interest of the child. Grave Risk […]

CA Paris, 11 d?cembre 2012, No de RG 12/13919

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The case concerned a child born in 2007 in Spain to married parents. The child had lived in Spain with its Moroccan mother and Italian father since birth and until 2010. In February 2010, the mother took the child to Morocco to introduce it to her family, then, in August 2010, she moved to France […]