U. S. Supreme Court To Hear International Child Custody Case

In an international case that confronts how the term “habitual residence” shall be understood under Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in the United State of America, the U. S. Supreme Court will be reviewing a lower court’s ruling that returned a child to Scotland, when the trial court order was to keep the child in the U.S.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/13/us-usa-courts-supremecourt-childcustody-idUSBRE87C11I20120813

This case will be instrumental in lower courts understand and apply the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

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