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Jeremy D. Morley has submitted expert evidence to a
court in California that Pakistan does not comply with international norms
concerning the return of internationally abducted children and that Pakistan is
justifiably well-recognized as being a safe haven for international child
abductors.
The opinion resulted in a court order that did not
merely bar all travel by one of the parents with the children outside a local
geographical area but also required that all visitation with the children by
that parent must be supervised at all times.
Mr. Morley provided an evaluation of the risk factors
as to potential international child abduction, the application of the factors
to the facts of the pending case and to the balance that must be considered
between the risk of abduction presented by the facts concerning a specific
parent and the risk that is presented by a specific country.
The more certain it is that the country to which the
child might be taken is a fully compliant Hague Abduction Convention treaty
partner with an effective legal system, the more evidence is required that the
individual parent is likely to be an abductor in order to justify the
imposition of strong international abduction prevention measures. With respect
to Pakistan, not only has that country failed to accede to the Convention but
it is non-compliant with basic international norms concerning international
child abduction, to the extent that the Government of the United States has
deemed it necessary to issue formal diplomatic protests the Government of
Pakistan.
