Thank you to so many
of my colleagues in jurisdictions around the world for the great collaboration
that we enjoyed throughout the past year in working together to handle
interesting and important legal matters for appreciative clients.
Together we prevented
numerous international child abductions, recovered many internationally
abducted children, protected children and parents in international
crises, created strong international prenuptial agreements, strategized
to solve important financial issues for internationally divorcing clients, and
handled many dozens of other significant issues in this fascinating and
challenging field of international family law.
I enjoyed acting as
an expert witness concerning international child custody issues in courts in
many American states as well as in Australia, Canada and Hong
Kong concerning the family laws of India, Egypt, Malaysia, Japan, Turkey
and other countries. It was a privilege to orchestrate the drafting
of international prenuptial agreements concerning as many as eight different
international jurisdictions. It was fun to confer with lawyers and their
clients in Japan, Panama, Brazil, Turkey, Canada, UAE, Egypt and so
many European countries, as well as in so many U.S. states and
numerous other jurisdictions, and to brainstorm together a host
of tricky family law issues.
I look forward to
working collaboratively with many of my old and with new colleagues in 2016.