A wonderful ending to a sad all too common story when alienating parents kidnap their own children. Not only do the left behind parents suffer along with the children, extended family including Uncles, Aunties, cousins and grandparents also suffer. A New Zealand-born boy embroiled in an international tug-of-love is looking forward to celebrating his first…
Category: wrongful retention
Madonna Lost Custody of Son Rocco – Child Abduction
“Material Girl” Madonna and ex-husband Guy Ritchie divorced in 2008 and spent the next eight years battling over the custody of their son, Rocco John Ritchie. Back in 2016 pop icon, Madonna lost custody of her then-15-year-old son Rocco to ex-husband director Guy Ritchie after an attempt at an agreement between the parties failed. Rocco, like so many other…
International Child Abduction and the Philippines
With its beautiful beaches and amazing weather the Philippines, no wonder it’s a major holiday destination. Western men are also very attracted to Philippine woman and often meet in online dating sites. However, the love story can quickly go South after children are born. As a result the Philippines… has been for many years…
International Parental Child Abduction – Holiday Season
International Parental Child Abductions rises ever single year. There is nothing being done about preventing or returning innocent children kidnapped overseas, often victims caught in the middle of two parents feuding. A pathetic system (Hague Convention), corruption, inexperienced courts, incompetent lawyers, lack of care and interest by authorities, family culture/influences and cross boarder laws are…
Hague Convention No Enforcement
There is still an overwhelming lack of information out there about the reality of the Hague Convention and important aspects that most avoid or sweep under the carpet. Lets be honest, just because a country is a party to the appalling Hague Convention does not mean that it will effectively enforce its treaty obligations. In…
Expatriate law can disallow taking children back home after divorce
Readers might be surprised to learn that one in every 10 British citizens is now living overseas. This expat exodus from the UK isn’t just fuelled by retirees looking for a drier, warmer climate and a low cost of living as it also includes British professionals lured by the tax-free lifestyles, fast and furious career…
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….
British psychiatrist’s Polish ex-partner kidnapped their four-year-old daughter to raise her in her home country – and UK courts are helpless
Poland is a country CARI Child Abduction Recovery International can confidently say we are experts in returning abducted children from. We have proven and continue to prove it with results from Poland. ———————————————————— • Islam Heliel is fighting for his daughter Kleopatra to be returned to Britain to him • The 50-year-old’s ex-partner kidnapped their four-year-old…
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…
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