Posts in Child Abduction

Oct 31 Knight v. Gottesman: An In-Depth View of the Hague Convention

In the recent case, Knight v. Gottesman , the parties appeared before Justice Shore of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to ...

Sep 26 Child Abduction: How Do You Prevent the Removal of a Child Wrongfully Held in Ontario?

In the case of Geliedan v Rawdah, Justice Faieta of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice heard an urgent motion by the Father ...

May 04 Travel to a non-Hague Jurisdiction

Gare v. El Nashar , 2018 ONSC 477 In Gare v. El Nashar , the court was confronted with 3 different issues, however, the ...

Apr 20 Hague Convention and Risk of Harm to the Children

Zafar v Saiyid 2018 ONCA 352 Facts The Appellant and the Respondent are married with two young children. The children were born ...

Dec 16 Morena Baccarin: Permission of the Court to Travel with 3 year old son

As reported by TMZ , Gotham star Morena Baccarin recently received permission of the Court to travel to Brazil with her three year ...

Dec 04 Decision On Habitual Residence Was Contrary To Purpose Of The Hague Convention

Balev v. Baggott , 2016 CarswellOnt 14331 (Ont. C.A.) In this decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Court reversed the ...