Recent Posts in the Child Abduction Category

• Travel to a non-Hague Jurisdiction

  May 4, 2018
  Gare v. El Nashar , 2018 ONSC 477 In Gare v. El Nashar , the court was confronted with 3 different issues, however, the interesting legal issue ...
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• Hague Convention and Risk of Harm to the Children

  Apr 20, 2018
  Zafar v Saiyid 2018 ONCA 352 Facts The Appellant and the Respondent are married with two young children. The children were born and raised in England, ...
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• Morena Baccarin: Permission of the Court to Travel with 3 year old son

  Dec 16, 2016
  As reported by TMZ, Gotham star Morena Baccarin recently received permission of the Court to travel to Brazil with her three year old son in order to ...
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• Decision On Habitual Residence Was Contrary To Purpose Of The Hague Convention

  Dec 4, 2016
  Balev v. Baggott , 2016 CarswellOnt 14331 (Ont. C.A.) In this decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Court reversed the Divisional Court’s ...
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• The Hague Service Convention Overrides the Family Law Rules

  Aug 12, 2016
  Wang v Lin , 2016 ONSC 3967 This decision by the Divisional Court of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice overrules Justice Kiteley’s previous ...
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• Gossip Girl's Kelly Rutherford: The Child Abductor

  May 13, 2016
  Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford and her ex-husband, German businessman Daniel Giersch, were embroiled in a 33-month-long controversial custody ...
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• Children’s habitual residence: Balev v. Baggott, 2016 ONSC 55

  May 2, 2016
  The parties married in Ontario in November of 2000. In 2001, they moved to Germany, where their two children were born in 2002 and 2005. The children ...
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• Children's habitual residence: Balev v. Baggott, 2016 ONSC 55

  May 2, 2016
  The parties married in Ontario in November of 2000. In 2001, they moved to Germany, where their two children were born in 2002 and 2005. The children ...
  Posted By Andrew Feldstein
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