Wrongful Retention of Child Becomes an Abducted Child

When parents share custody of their child or children, whether across the street or across the planet they run the risk that the other parent won’t return the child on time or according to an agreement. When that happens it is called Wrongful Retention – the custodial parent is holding the child in violation of their parenting plan or court order.

Frequently it is a matter of a few hours and in the long run, it is not a big issue, but when the Wrongful Retention becomes days, weeks or months, then it becomes an abduction. The wrongful retention of a child becomes an Abducted Child and the problems with enforcing a return order grow with each passing day.

Police will look to the court order to determine if they can do anything, usually they want to find a way to not act. Police do not like to enforce custody orders whether they are from a local court, another state and definitely not if it is another country. Which is why all  court orders need to be registered with a local court in a process known as Domestication for international child custody cases, and for interstate cases.

As experienced lawyers who have worked with international child custody cases, we can help  get abducted children back, depending on where they are.

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