It has been more than four decades since the international community attempted to address international parental child abduction issue through legal instrument — the Hague Convention (HC) with 101 ...

Why is Japan considered a haven for parental child abductors? Can an international treaty resolve the underlying issues? With Japan finally set to join the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of ...

This article is concerning the role of children's representation in Hague proceedings. The authors offer an important perspective that has not been covered in recent articles on children's ...

A First Nations mother is appealing to the federal government to intervene in an international custody dispute that has separated her from her two-year-old daughter. A two-year-old First Nations child ...

In 1980, an international treaty was designed to return children who had been abducted by a parent who moved to another country. Back then, the people drafting the treaty thought the typical abductor ...

(CN) — A child cannot be a resident of two countries under the Hague Convention, even if he or she sleeps in one country but goes to school in another, the Third Circuit ruled, dashing a Dutch Sint ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave federal trial courts more discretion over whether children in some international custody disputes must be returned to their home countries. The unanimous decision ...

On Tuesday the justices considered what obligations, if any, U.S. courts have to consider measures that might reduce the risk of harm if a child who has been abducted is returned to the country where ...