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September 15, 2015

International Child Custody Case | Columbus Family Law

  Gottfried Law acts as Lead Counsel for Dominguez in a recent international child abuse case Custody disputes are often a serious result of a divorce case. It becomes very complicated when a parent removes a child or children from the home country and crosses into a foreign country without the other parent’s consent. This is where Gottfried Law comes […]
July 17, 2015

Changes to Spanish Law – International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Christopher Lee of the International Academy of Matrimonial lawyers has reported in a recent IAMML email the following changes to Spanish Law: Spain has long been a poor applier of the Hague Convention In large part, this is because there’s been no judicial centralisation. So a local first-instance court can be dealing with a mortgage foreclosure one minute and then […]
March 20, 2014

Hague Convention Creates ‘Automatic Return’

In a 9-0 decision on March 5, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez, 572 U.S. __ (2014). Writing for the unanimous Court, Justice Thomas framed the case and holding this way: “When a parent abducts a child and flees to another country, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction generally requires that […]
December 2, 2013

Hague Convention and Equitable Tolling: A Matter for the Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court will hear Oral Arguments on a Hague Convention Case on December 11, 2013. The case is Lozano v. Alvarez Docket No., 12-820. The issue presented by the Lozano case as detailed in an ABA article on the case are as follows: QUESTION PRESENTED: The primary purpose of The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of […]
March 14, 2013

Hague Convention on the International Abduction of Children

International Abduction of Children On February 19, 2013, the United States Supreme Court issued a significant decision which affects children who have been returned to their country of Habitual Residence pursuant to the Hague Convention on the International Abduction of Children ( The Hague). The case is Chafin v Chafin, and the Case No is 11-1347. In Chafin, Father was living in […]
January 7, 2013

Return of the children under the Hague from Japan

Recently I had the occasion to address the issue of the return of children who had been wrongfully removed from the United States to Japan. Although Japan is a member of the Hague Convention on the abduction of children, it has been very difficult to obtain the return of children wrongfully removed from Japan. I have reprinted below a portion […]
September 15, 2015

International Child Custody Case | Columbus Family Law

  Gottfried Law acts as Lead Counsel for Dominguez in a recent international child abuse case Custody disputes are often a serious result of a divorce case. It becomes very complicated when a parent removes a child or children from the home country and crosses into a foreign country without the other parent’s consent. This is where Gottfried Law comes […]
July 17, 2015

Changes to Spanish Law – International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Christopher Lee of the International Academy of Matrimonial lawyers has reported in a recent IAMML email the following changes to Spanish Law: Spain has long been a poor applier of the Hague Convention In large part, this is because there’s been no judicial centralisation. So a local first-instance court can be dealing with a mortgage foreclosure one minute and then […]
March 20, 2014

Hague Convention Creates ‘Automatic Return’

In a 9-0 decision on March 5, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez, 572 U.S. __ (2014). Writing for the unanimous Court, Justice Thomas framed the case and holding this way: “When a parent abducts a child and flees to another country, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction generally requires that […]
December 2, 2013

Hague Convention and Equitable Tolling: A Matter for the Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court will hear Oral Arguments on a Hague Convention Case on December 11, 2013. The case is Lozano v. Alvarez Docket No., 12-820. The issue presented by the Lozano case as detailed in an ABA article on the case are as follows: QUESTION PRESENTED: The primary purpose of The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of […]
March 14, 2013

Hague Convention on the International Abduction of Children

International Abduction of Children On February 19, 2013, the United States Supreme Court issued a significant decision which affects children who have been returned to their country of Habitual Residence pursuant to the Hague Convention on the International Abduction of Children ( The Hague). The case is Chafin v Chafin, and the Case No is 11-1347. In Chafin, Father was living in […]
January 7, 2013

Return of the children under the Hague from Japan

Recently I had the occasion to address the issue of the return of children who had been wrongfully removed from the United States to Japan. Although Japan is a member of the Hague Convention on the abduction of children, it has been very difficult to obtain the return of children wrongfully removed from Japan. I have reprinted below a portion […]