by Jeremy D. Morley My article on Strategic Planning for International Divorces is published in the new issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.I explain in the article that lawyers representing clients with significant international connections who are contemplating ...
I am delighted to announce that the most recent edition of my book, International Family Law Practice (2024), has now been published. The book provides practical insight and proven strategies for U.S. attorneys dealing with international family law matters. It covers a wide range of topics, i...
Jeremy D. Morley Will a foreign country divorce be recognized in the United States if the parties both appeared in the foreign proceeding but neither of them was domiciled in that country? Yes, say the courts in New York. No, say many other courts. But recently, the Fourth Circuit Court of Ap...
Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Brazil since 2003. In 2023, Brazil continued to demonstrate a pattern ofnoncompliance. Specifically, the Brazilian judicial authorities failed to regularly implement and comply with the provisions of the Convention. As a resu...
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2024 Annual Report on International Child Abduction. Summary: The Convention has been in force between the United States and Belize since 1989. In 2023, Belize continued to demonstrate a pattern ofnoncompliance. Specifically, the judicial authorities ...
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2024 Action Report on International Child Abduction.
by Jeremy D Morley India is a well-established safe haven for international child abduction, in this author's opinion, but expert evidence must be supplied to a court before it may make any such determination. In a case in Minnesota, a district court authorized the parties' mother to take the...
Published: 3rd April 2024 Whenever children are abducted from the United Kingdom to the United States, counsel for the left-behind parents must consider a most unusual aspect of U.S. law when determining the optimal methods of securing the children's return. Not only may a case be started under ...
by Jeremy D. Morley The United States accepted Pakistan's accession to the Hague Abduction Convention in 2020, but there has been very little experience so far concerning Pakistan's compliance with the treaty. The latest State Department report to Congress on this issue merely states that no Co...
By Jeremy D. Morley Can a parent who has obtained an order of sole custody of a U.S. citizen child from a foreign court obtain a U.S. passport for the child without notice to the other parent and without the consent of the other parent? My answer is that it depends on the circumstances but if ha...
Jeremy D. Morley[1] www.international-divorce.com 1. This article concerns Muslim divorces in Pakistan. 2. A Muslim marriage is a civil contract, known as a nikah nama. The nikah nama contains provisions for the dowry (“mahr”). The mahr is usually in two parts – t...
We are delighted that yesterday after a lengthy trial, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Briccetti J.) upheld our client's position that her relocation of her children from Montreal to Monsey, New York was not in violation of the Hague Abduction Convention.
We are delighted to have assisted in securing the return to their home in the U.S. of children who were wrongfully retained in the country of Colombia. The return was a result of actions taken in the United States not in Colombia. Colombia remains a high-risk destination for child visits wh...
Jeremy D. Morley Australia's experiment with a presumption of “equal shared parental responsibility” has ended, with passage of the Family Law Amendment Bill 2023. In 2006 Australia adopted the presumption of equal parenting in order to change the then-prevalent practice of favoring mothers o...
Jeremy D. Morley In an article entitled Billionaire Divorces Spur Crackdown by China's Market Regulator,Bloomberg cites a “rising number of divorces among China's wealthy tycoons” amid concerns that divorce is being used in China as a device to split large stockholdings and uncertainty as to the...
Joyful news! Our client today has his children safely. back home in Virginia after their mother abducted them to France. Kudos to the French authorities. The return was a little more than two months after I was retained.
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Romania has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it has taken the...
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. The Republic of Korea has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it...
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Peru has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention for the last nine years. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past ...
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Jordan has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention for the last eight years. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the pa...
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. India has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention for the last eight years. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the pas...
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Honduras has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention. The State Department has reported to Congress that within the past year it has taken ...
Bangladesh needs to accede to the Hague Abduction Convention. See this article about my Japanese client. https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/news/japanese-mother-vs-bangladeshi-father-key-takeaways-3396406
The U.S. State Department has now issued its 2023 Action Report on International Child Abduction. Egypt has been declared by the State Department to be non-compliant with the Hague Abduction Convention for each and every year for the past eight years. The State Department has reported to Cong...
Issues concerning proper service of process on parties in Colombia can be tricky, especially in light of the Hague Service Convention. We have provided expert assistance to local family lawyers in two cases recently. In both cases, the client's positions were upheld.
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