Decision of the Federal Supreme Court 5A_437/2021 of 8 September 2021

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The child, a girl, was 4 at the time of the alleged wrongful removal from the USA. The parents were not married and met online when the mother was still a teenager (and living in Switzerland). During her second visit to Florida the mother (not a US national) became pregnant. The mother gave birth to […]

Jacquety v Baptista (S.D. N.Y. 2021) 2021 WL 1885263

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The parents were born and lived in Morocco. The mother was a Spanish and Portuguese national and the father a French national. The couple married in France in 2013 and had one child, born in 2014 in Morocco. In November 2018 the mother travelled with the child to Switzerland and then to Portugal and on […]

DW v MB – [2020] JMSC Civ 230

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The parents had a child, born in 2017 in Maryland, USA. They married in 2018 and lived in Florida, USA, until June 2019 when the mother and the child travelled to Jamaica. In October 2019 the father filed an application under the 1980 Hague Convention for the return of the child to the USA. The […]

OLG Karlsruhe 2 UF 200 19 – 25 June 2020

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

Karlsruhe Local Court had obligated the mother, in its order dated 14 November 2019 (File No: 2 F 1701/19, INCADAT Case No: 1468) to effect, within two weeks, the return of the two children, one born in December 2015 and the other born in August 2017, to the U.S. State of Connecticut. Among other things, […]

OLG Karlsruhe 2 UF 200 19 (Bes. Haftbef.)- 25 June 2020

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

The mother had been ordered, by means of an order issued by Karlsruhe Local Court dated 14 November 2019 (File No: 2 F 1701/19, INCADAT Case No: 1468) to return the children, one born in December 2015, the other born in August 2017, to the U.S.A. Her complaint (Beschwerde) appeal against this was rejected by […]

KG Berlin – 16 UF 22/20 – 6 April 2020

INCADAT legal file Hague parental abduction

In the order issued by Pankow/Wei??ensee Local Court (File ref.: 13 F 8440/19, INCADAT Case No 1473), the mother was obliged to return the child to the district where the father was resident in the USA. The reasoning provided by the court was that the mother was wrongfully retaining the child in Berlin following a […]