Sanchez v. R. G. L. ex rel. Hernandez, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 14849 (5th Cir. 2014)
Three children were born and raised in Mexico, and are Mexican citizens. They lived with their mother and her boyfriend. On 9 June 2012, the children’s aunt and uncle brought the children, without their mother’s knowledge or consent, to Texas. After the mother’s several requests for her children’s return, on 18 July 2012, the children’s […]
S?nchez-Londo?o v. Gonz?lez, 752 F.3d 533 (1st Cir. 2014)
The proceedings concerned a child born in the United States of America in October 2006. The mother, an illegal immigrant from Colombia, and the father, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had married in December 2005. In December 2008, the mother went back to Colombia with the child in an attempt to secure legal status to reside […]
Blaga v. Romania (Application No 54443/10)
The proceedings related to three children, all of whom had dual American and Romanian citizenship, who were born in March 1998 and October 2000 (twins). The parents, who had married and lived in the United States, also held dual Romanian-U.S. citizenship. On 1 May 2007, the Superior Court of Forsyth County in the United States […]
Dar?n v. Olivero-Huffman, 746 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2014)
The proceedings related to a child born in Argentina in April 2008 to an Argentine father and an American mother from Puerto Rico. The child moved regularly between Argentina and the United States of America. The parents’ relationship was characterized by periods of separation and reconciliation. There was one incident in 2010 where the mother […]
Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez, 134 S.Ct. 1224 (2014)
The proceedings concerned a child born in October 2005 to Colombian parents who had met and lived together in London. The parents never married. At trial, the District Court found that the father had mistreated the mother in some way and that the child had been exposed to, and negatively affected by, the problems in […]
P.R.A. c. P.G.M.J
The proceedings concerned a girl who was born to Dominican parents during their short relationship. When they separated, the girl remained under the mother’s care. The father applied for U.S. residency for himself and his daughter. In March 2012, the parents arrived to an agreement in which the mother authorised the girl to live outside […]
Mendoza v. Silva, 987 F.Supp.2d 883
Headifen v. Harker, 549 Fed.Appx. 300 (5th Cir. 2013)
The proceedings concerned a child who was born in the United States of America in August 2008 and adopted shortly thereafter. The adoptive parents had married in 2005. The father was a New Zealand national, the mother South African. Both were naturalised citizens of the United States. The family moved to New Zealand on 3 […]
Valenzuela v. Michel, 736 F.3d 1173 (9th Cir. 2013)
The proceedings concerned twin girls born to unmarried parents in 2008. At the time of the birth the parents lived together in Mexico. In 2009, the parents agreed that the father would move to the United States of America, and that they would put in place an arrangement to keep the girls in the United […]
West v. Dobrev, 735 F.3d 921 (10th Cir. 2013)
The proceedings concerned two children born in the United States of America in January 2004 and January 2006 to married parents. The family relocated to France in June 2008. In May 2009, the mother petitioned for divorce in a local French court. An interim order of October 2009 provided that the children live in the […]