High Court judge Mr Justice Cobb has told parents who fear their child will be taken into care that Ireland cannot provide ‘sanctuary’.
Ruling in the case of an English mother who had crossed the Irish Sea to try and escape care proceedings, the …
In an unusual case, the High Court has declared that a baby born in the UK to Slovakian parents is not ‘habitually resident’ in either country.
In Re T, a 16 year-old girl from the eastern European country had been placed in a mother and baby …
A Romanian woman living in York has failed in her attempt to overturn registration of a court order from Romania granting care of her child to his father.
GB v RNB concerned a couple from the eastern European country who married in 2007. Their son …
In a recently published judgement, the Family Division of the High Court has ruled that a case involving the welfare of two children should continue in British courts despite their mother having moved with them to Ireland since the beginning of the …
More than once I have commented that the dry dusty pages of High Court judgements can be deceptive. They in fact are the stuff of desperate people whose family lives have imploded. It would be a mistake for anyone interested in the operation of …
Moving abroad is always a big step, whether for work, a new relationship, or just a little more sunshine. Expatriates have contend with legal systems and cultures that may be very different to those in the UK, colouring their experience of such …
What happens when parents separate abroad and one of them wants to return to England and bring the children with them? The prospect of desperate parents resorting to child abduction immediately throws up a raft of complex emotional and legal …
As I mentioned in my post about habitual residence, this blog receives a number of enquiries from people living outside England, enquiring whether it is possible to divorce in England. In that post, I explained that in order to do so, an applicant …
This blog receives many enquiries from people overseas who wish to know if they are able to present a divorce petition in England. The answer, quite simply, rests on whether or not there is jurisdiction to do so.
In other words: can you demonstrate …
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