2017 (Kyo) No. 9 Case on Appeal with Permission against Modification of Final Order
The parents are an American father and a Japanese mother who were married and living in the United States. In July 2014, the mother removed their four children to Japan when the elder twins were 11 years and 7 months old and the younger twins 6 years and 5 months old. In breach of her […]
2017 (Ra) No. 525 Appeal case against an order to return the child
The father is a United States national, the mother a Japanese national. They met in Japan while the father was serving for a United States military base and married in Japan in 2012. The couple lived with the mother’s son from her previous marriage in Japan. The father returned to the United States, followed by […]
B.S.P. v C.M., 2017 SKQB 179
The mother and father never married but lived together for 8 years. The mother has four children, born in 2002, 2009, 2011 and 2014. The father is the biological father of the three youngest. While not biologically related to the eldest child, the father testified that he stood in the place of the child’s father […]
Pliego v. Hayes, 843 F.3d 226 (6th Cir. 2016)
The case concerns a child born in 2011 to a Spanish father and an American Mother. The father was working as a diplomat in Turkey at the time of the wrongful removal. In April 2014, the mother traveled to Kentucky, United States with the child and made a unilateral decision not to return. The father […]
Corte di Cassazione, sezione I civile, sentenza 15 Luglio 2016, n. 18846
Frisancho Perea v. Slovakia (Application No 383/13)
Ortiz v. Martinez, 789 F.3d 722 (7th Cir. 2015)
The appellant father and respondent mother lived in Mexico together with their two children, a girl and boy aged seven and 16, respectively, at the time of the proceedings. In August 2011, they all travelled to Chicago. The appellant returned to Mexico, but the respondent and children did not return. The appellant filed an action […]
Adžić v. Croatia (Application No 22643/14)
2015 (Ra) No. 491 Case on Appeal against a return order
Objections of the Child to a Return – Art. 13(2) The father argued that B and D had attained an age and degree of maturity at which it is appropriate to take account of their views, and that they objected to being returned to the state of their habitual residence even though their objections primarily […]
Pliego v. Hayes, 86 F.Supp.3d 678 (W.D. Ky. 2015)
The case concerned a child born in March 2011 to a Spanish diplomat father and an American mother. The child was a citizen of Spain and the United States. The parents had been in a relationship for about eight years before marrying in 2009. The child was born in the United States and had spent […]