The 5th Circuit vacated a district court’s preliminary injunction that ordered Canadian courts to adjudicate child custody and barred Texas judges from hearing parallel litigation, while affirming the lower court’s order returning two children to Canada und...
A Washington State Court of Appeals panel ruled that a domestic violence protection order’s blanket prohibition on posting any media referencing family members violates the First Amendment, requiring the trial court to narrow the restriction.
A federal judge in Indiana denied a motion to dismiss a Hague Convention petition, ruling that an unmarried Irish father adequately alleged he holds custody rights under amended Irish law.
A divided panel split over whether a child's halting, one-word answers in a closed-door interview were enough to invoke the Hague Convention's narrow age-and-maturity exception.
A Cook County mother lost her appeal to reverse termination of her parental rights to four children, even though the appellate court agreed the trial court erred in letting her attorney withdraw without following proper notice procedures.
A federal judge held that an unmarried Irish father plausibly has custody rights under Irish law — defeating a motion to dismiss his petition to return his two-year-old child from Indiana to Ireland.
A federal judge ordered a Turkish toddler returned to Turkey after rejecting the mother's claims that domestic violence and the father's own conduct in the United States barred repatriation under the Hague Convention.