Saturday, October 21, 2006

Claim for Concealment of Value of Marital Assets Dismissed in New York

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Once a divorce case is settled, parties often experience “buyer’s or seller’s remorse’ but a just-decided New York case shows how tough it i...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

Habitual residence of a baby in a Hague case

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The Seventh Circuit has issued a significant new ruling on habitual residence of babies and young children in Hague international child abdu...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Interplay of UCCJEA and the Hague Abduction Convention

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The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ne...
Saturday, September 02, 2006

Three Sides to Every International Child Abduction Story

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The British media have been full of hype about a 12-year old girl who was allegedly abducted from her home in Scotland and taken to Pakistan...
Monday, August 21, 2006

There are Two Ways to Prepare for an International Divorce

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Are you someone who always runs at the last minute to catch a plane? Or do you prefer to arrive at the airport ten minutes early and relax? ...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Enforceable Prenuptial Agreements: Their Time Has Come

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"Jeremy D Morley, Attorney-at-Law, International Family Law Office, New York, USA. The author says that the failure of English courts t...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

New Parental Relocation Law in Connecticut

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Connecticut has passed “An Act Concerning the Relocation of Parents Having Custody of Minor Children,” to be effective October 1, 2006, that...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Custody orders not respected internationally; Children abducted overseas

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The news story below demonstrates why it is so important for the courts to listen to parents who are concerned that their children may be ta...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

International Relocation of Children

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Our article, International Relocation of Children: American and English Approaches , by Jeremy D. Morley and James H. Maguire, has been publ...
Monday, July 10, 2006

India: Safe Haven for International Child Abduction

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For several reasons, India has become a safe haven for child abductors. First, India is not a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Asp...
Sunday, June 04, 2006

Strategic International Divorce ™

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International family lawyer, Jeremy D. Morley, announces the launch of the Strategic International Divorce Planning™ service. Morley conten...
Monday, May 29, 2006

German Failure to Expedite Hague Child Abduction Cases

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It is our personal experience handling international child abduction cases in Germany (with local counsel) that serious problems apply with ...
Thursday, May 11, 2006

Abducting parent (Canada to France) in Jail

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Vancouver court gets serious Woman accused of abducting her children to France is denied bail at 19:22 on May 11, 2006, EST. http://www.9...

California mother held in custody breach case

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I am posting this to draw attention to what should be simply routine: the arrest of a parent after her abduction of her child. Hats off to C...
Sunday, April 30, 2006

“Rights of Custody” under the Hague Convention

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In Bader v. Kramer , decided on April 17, 2006, the Fourth Circuit reviewed the meaning of the term “rights of custody,” which is one of the...
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Rabbinic Courts in Israel

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Israel's High Court of Justice has ruled that Israel’s rabbinic courts may not resolve divorced couples' property and financial disp...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Islamic divorce vs. U.S divorce

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Islamic men who are foreign nationals but American residents often seek to divorce their spouses under the Sharia law prevailing in their co...
Monday, February 13, 2006

English divorce law: Divorced from reality

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Today’s (London) Times contains an opinion article from the paper’s former editor, William Rees-Mogg, attacking the English divorce system. ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Hague Convention: Consent & Acquiescence

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The High Court in England seems to have made it far easier for a child-abducting parent to prove the defenses of consent and acquiescence in...
Friday, January 13, 2006

Hague Convention – Burden of Proof Case

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ruled – in Humphrey v. Humphrey , a Hague Convention child abduction case concerning th...