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Jeremy D. Morley In June 2021, the Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. Embassy Brasilia delivered a formal diplomatic protest known as a “demarche” to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, notifying Brazilian officials that the Department again cited Brazil in the 2021 Annual Report on Internat...

Jeremy D. Morley Here are some tips from attorney Jeremy D. Morley  --  who has worked on hundreds of Hague cases and is the author of the American Bar Association treatise on The Hague Abduction Convention -- for attorneys and clients faced with instituting or defending child abduction proceedi...

by Jeremy D. Morley   The Dowry Prohibition Act of 2018 (the "Act") of Bangladesh prohibits the giving or receiving of a dowry.  The primary purpose of the Act is to end the custom whereby the bride's family makes a financial payment to the groom's family upon a marriage. The system is now seen...

by attorney Jeremy D. Morley www.international-divorce.com A terrifically interesting issue is pending before the courts of Bangladesh. My client is a Japanese doctor in Tokyo. Her estranged husband abducted the children from Tokyo to Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Family Court in Tokyo has ordered the...

by Jeremy D. Morley I had the pleasure this week of participating in a panel discussion organized by the Singapore Bar Association with three brilliant international family lawyers, Yap Teong Liang of Singapore, Kiran Dhaliwal of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Keturah Sageman of Sydney, Australia. ...

by Jeremy D. Morley In any Hague Abduction Convention case, the court must determine the date of the alleged wrongful removal or retention of the child before determining the child's habitual residence. A decision on the applicable date may well resolve the entire case. Yesterday, the Sixth Cir...

Jeremy D. Morley In June 2021, the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires delivered a formal diplomatic protest known as a “demarche” to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship, notifying Argentine officials that the Department cited Argentina in the 2021 Annual Report on International Child...

Jeremy D. Morley It is gratifying that, in its award of legal fees to my client, whose child was successfully returned from New York to Spain pursuant to the Hague Abduction Convention, the U.S. district court's calculation was based in part on my status as “one of the leading experts” on the Co...

by Jeremy D Morley Japanese law requires that married couples share the same surname, which can be that of either the husband or the wife. There appears to be no country other than Japan that requires married couples to adopt the same surname. The Supreme Court of Japan recently ruled that this ...

 Jeremy Morley I was accepted yesterday by both sides in a case in North Carolina as an expert in international child custody law and international child abduction law, and the laws and procedures of the same, and as these matters apply to Iran. I have previously provided expert evidence as t...

The Family Court of Western Australia appointed Jeremy D Morley as a single expert to report on the law and legal process by which the Malaysian courts make arrangements following the breakdown of a marriage with respect to the custody and guardianship of children, financial support and mainten...

In a Hague Abduction Convention case in the United States District Court in Savannah, Georgia, the Court relied on the opinions that I expressed in the 2020 edition of my treatise on International Family Law Practice that (a) international travel authorizations should normally be afforded only li...

In a practice that increasingly involves cross-border issues, a growing number of clients fear their children may be abducted, are concerned about overseas travel, or are considering international marriage or divorce. Written to help family lawyers best represent clients and their children, this ...

 by Jeremy D Morley An amendment to Japan's Civil Procedure Law enters into force on June 1, 2021, intended to promote enforcement of Japanese civil custody orders. Although the new law may be helpful it will provide no benefit to non-custodial parents seeking to enforce their visitation rights....

by Jeremy D. Morley Difficult issues arise under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act when children are taken overseas for visits and do not return. A recent New York case illustrates some of the issues. In Kassim v. Al-Maliki, 2021 WL 1774145 (NY App. Div. 2d. Dept. M...

The U.S. State Department has recently released their annual report on International Child Abduction. The Department of State leads the U.S. government's efforts to prevent and resolve international parental child abductions, as part of the Department's mission to advance the interests and safety.

Grounds For Divorce in Korea A divorce may be obtained in Korea based on the mutual consent of the spouses. Art. 834, Korean Civil Act. Both spouses need to agree and appear in court in Korea. Alternatively, the grounds for a judicial divorce in Korea (Art. 840) are: An unchaste act (adulter...

The mere fact that a foreign child custody order is homologized in Brazil does not guarantee that the order will remain in effect and unchanged over time. Brazilian courts will have jurisdiction to hear an application to modify any such order once the child has relocated to and is resident in Br...

Announcing: The Third Edition of The Hague Abduction by Jeremy D. Morley will soon be published by the American Bar Association. The Third Edition has been completely updated to reflect recent case law, especially concerning the key elements of habitual residence and grave risk of harm. The book ...

 The United States has not accepted the accession made by Belarus in 1998 to the Hague Abduction Convention (the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction). This means that the Convention is not in force between the two countries. Therefore, the return remedi...

Jeremy Morley will speak this Thursday, October 29 at 11am ET in a webinar, sponsored by the American Bar Association, entitled, “All in the Family: COVID-19 Impact on Cross-Border Marriage, Divorce and Custody.” As the pandemic and its associated restrictions have remained largely in place, d...

I recently joined Australian attorney Keturah Sageman and Lauren Battersby to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on international family law cases in the U.S. You can listen to the discussion here.

I just found this ruling from a while back by a judge in Connecticut on the impact of my testimony as an expert witness on India law and practice. “We, normally in these matters, do not have the opportunity to hear from an expert witness, particularly someone as learned and as experienced in wh...

The U.S. State Department has recently released their annual report on International Child Abduction. Below is our tenth post in a series here focusing on the ten countries classified as “demonstrating patterns of noncompliance.” Today's country is United Arab Emirates. Country Summary: Th...

The United States has now accepted Pakistan's accession to the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention. The Convention will enter into force between the two countries on October 1, 2020. It is not clear whether the decision to accept the accession is a result of a dispassionate review of the Pakistani...