Tag: Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of American Mother Who Doesn’t Want Son Returned to Italy

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of an American mother on June 15, finding that a U.S. appeals court was wrong to find that her Italian-born child should be returned to his abusive father in Italy despite the risk to which the child may be exposed by doing so. When a U.S. court determines that…


Don’t Send Son Back to Italy for Custody Hearing, American Mother Urges Supreme Court

An appeals court misinterpreted an international child abduction treaty in a custody dispute by ordering that a child who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Italy, and had been living in Italy, should be returned to that country for the courts there to decide custody, the Supreme Court heard March 23. The case…