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USA: A US Bill Named After an Indian American Woman
The legislation seeks to repeal benefits for countries found to be non-compliant in child abduction cases. source A US lawmaker Chris Smith, a Republican representative from New Jersey, introduced a...
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India: Law on table to deal with child custody disputes involving NRI parents
Law Commission has held that “desire to protect children must be based on the true interpretation of their best interest” in its 263rd report. Photo Courtesy: Law Commission of India source The...
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Spain: Plight of Juana Rivas, a mother-of-two and abuse victim shakes Spain
source MADRID: The plight of a Spanish woman who vanished with her children after defying a court order to hand them over to her Italian ex-partner, found guilty of domestic violence, has shaken the...
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India: Child abduction law may cover women’s interests
The aim is to put adequate safeguards to protect NRI parents, especially women, who remove a child from the lawful custody of their spouse. source An NRI woman should have the right to refuse the...
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Japan: The Aftermath of Japan’s Ratification of the Hague Convention on Child...
An Investigation into the State Apparatus of the Modern Japanese Family The Aftermath of Japan’s Ratification of the Hague Convention on Child Abduction: An Investigation into the State Apparatus of...
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Canada / Belize: After three years on the run for parental kidnapping,...
source An Alberta woman charged with abducting her young son three years ago has been arrested in Belize. Lethbridge police say investigators received information last month on the whereabouts of a...
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Canada / Belize: Canadian woman arrested in Central America in parental...
source A woman who has been on the run from police for the last three years after kidnapping her son and fleeing the country has been arrested in Belize and returned to Canada to face charges....
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Canada: Father embraces opportunity to speak with young son for first time in...
source An Alberta man looks forward to reuniting with his son following a separation that lasted more than three years while authorities searched for the boy throughout Central America. “It was just...
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Australia: Turnbull government orders first ever review of the Family Law Act
source The Turnbull government is expected to shortly commence the biggest review of the Family Law Act since it was introduced in 1976, amid pressure from Pauline Hanson to address the rights of...
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India / USA: A new American bill causes unease in India
source When cross-country marriages crumble, courts are best suited to chart out a robust legal path by factoring in the sensitivities of all stakeholders A new bill introduced by the United States...
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UK: Abducted children could be stranded after Brexit
source Children abducted abroad by alienated parents could be stranded if Britain and the EU cease judicial cooperation following the departure of the UK. In a newly published policy paper, the...
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USA: Bank robber wanted cash to get his abducted child home. Here’s why he...
source A California man who robbed a Tacoma bank as part of a scheme to get his abducted daughter home can’t tell a jury why he did it, a judge ruled Thursday. David Henry Curry, 53, held up the Key...
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USA: 3 years after kids vanish, Md. mother wants her charges dropped
source WASHINGTON — Almost three years after Catherine Hoggle’s two young children disappeared, her lawyer has asked a Montgomery County judge to dismiss the three misdemeanor charges against her...
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USA: Inconvenient Truth: Children suffer in parental abductions
source No matter how much an alienating parent denies their children are suffering due, to the alienation they have caused with the target parent the truth is, these children often suffer in silence....
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Ireland: Heartbroken Irish dad says family’s lives have been ‘shattered’...
source Jeremy O’Connor hasn’t seen his ex wife or his son since 2014 A heartbroken dad who hasn’t hugged his son since he was abducted three years ago says the lives of his family have been...
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UK: ‘I WENT THROUGH HELL’– Brave mum Kerrie Shaw’s mission to rescue her kids...
A BRAVE mum risked her life to rescue her children from war-ravaged Iraq after they were abducted by their refugee dad. Kerrie Shaw went through “absolute hell” to snatch Daniella, now 13, and Makor,...
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Canada: Over 6,000 FedEx employees will now help search for abducted children
The company will transmit amber alerts to couriers, their social media channels, and internal communications source FedEx Canada has joined forces with Amber Alert Ontario to transmit alerts about...
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USA / Texas: Interstate Jurisdiction Cases when a Parent Abducts their Child
source Parental child abduction is the offense of a Parent wrongfully removing, retaining, detaining or concealing their child from the other parent. This often occurs when parents separate or divorce...
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Canada: Father’s suicide fuels battle over Divorce Act
Man ordered to pay ex-wife amount twice his monthly income source The suicide of a young British Columbia father has brought renewed calls for the reform of the decades-old federal Divorce Act and the...
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Parental Alienation: Lita Ford gets personal and talks about parental...
source 80’s hard rock queen Lita Ford is back and as she describes, is “rolling thunder”. At the young age of 16 she became the guitarist for The Runaways. It’s been noted that the all-girl metal band...
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