Australian parents who flee the country with their children could spend three years in jail amid major crackdown on child abduction. Australian parents who flee the country with their children could face up to three years behind bars under new laws. Until now, it has not been a criminal offence for parents to leave the…
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Frank warning to parents who abduct their own kids
We love lawyers like Brisbane Family Law specialist Jennifer Hetherington and totally agree Judges and authorities need to get harder on this horrific topic…. A LAW firm has issued a scathing message to parents who abduct their own children in defiance of court orders; “you get what you deserve”. And the punishment could be harsher than…
INDIAN COURT RULED ABDUCTED AMSTERDAM GIRL, 4, CAN STAY WITH FATHER, LAWYERS SAY
Firstly let us start off by saying CARI Child Abduction Recovery International is always the first to condemn India and its family court system BUT whether you like it or not they got it right in this case…. We have posted in the past on this case expressing the TRUE story that the mother was…
Religion and Parental Child Abduction
Religion in IPCA (A must read if you know someone involved) We wanted to write about this controversial topic as it gets ignored far too often until too late, some have no idea about its consequences and there is just not enough awareness about religion when it comes to International Parental Child Abduction or IPCA….
CARI Child Abduction Recovery International meeting with DFAT Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Australia
CARI Child Abduction Recovery International continues to bring awareness and at the same time speak with governments on issues relating to International Parental Child Abductions. Australia has one of the highest rates of IPCA cases in the world yet there are no statistics held by DFAT to show the true extent. CARI can tell you…
Belizean police testimony needed to advance alleged child abduction case
LETHBRIDGE – The case of a 33-year-old woman accused of abducting her child and fleeing the country remains stalled, as the Crown and defence seek assistance on the matter from police officials in Belize. The woman cannot be named to protect the identity of her child. The defence had intended to launch an application under…
Mother wins appeal preventing return of children to father in another EU country
CARI Child Abduction Recovery International is well aware of this case and the struggles this mother has gone through. A big congratulations to a wonderful mother who never gave up! ———————————————————- A mother has won an appeal preventing the return of her two small children, who were born here, to their father in another EU…
International parental child abduction case orders mother to return the child to Israel
A well written article below about a specific case which includes Israel and the United Kingdom. The question always is, which is very rarely ever followed up after these stories come out is: Will this order be enforced? I have written here on numerous occasions about international child abduction cases, and applications by the parent…
India not yet ready to sign the Hague treaty: Maneka
Concerns parental abduction of kids. The government is not yet ready to sign the Hague treaty on inter-country abduction of children by parents fleeing a bad marriage, said a senior official of the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD). There has been immense pressure from the U.S. on the government to sign the treaty…
Left-behind dad’s last resort: Impeach Japan’s Supreme Court judges
James Cook is relentless. His four children were abducted to Japan from Minnesota by his Japanese wife in 2014. This was after Japan acceded to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, so he might have had hope in the early days. Using the baroque procedural regime the Diet passed for…
Parental Child Abduction Case On Hold
Charter arguments in a child abduction case have been postponed while lawyers try to figure out the best way to hear evidence from authorities in Central America. Former Lethbridge lawyer Bill Wister was scheduled Tuesday in Lethbridge provincial court to show how his client’s Charter rights had been breached when she was forced from Belize…
Step forward for campaign to close legal ‘loophole’ on child abduction in Scotland
CAMPAIGNERS against abduction of children by a parent have hailed a Scottish Government consultation on a change in the law as a “positive development”. Scottish minsters are under pressure to close a “loophole” which means a parent can’t always be prosecuted if they take a child overseas from Scotland without the consent of the other…
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