About our international law blog

  • This site tracks developments in international family law from Richard Crouch and John Crouch of Crouch & Crouch in Arlington, Virginia. Our international practice has grown naturally from our location in our native Arlington, where our clients include many military, diplomatic and immigrant families, international organization employees, IT professionals, etc. This blog's purpose is to comment on the ongoing development of the law, and help other lawyers, journalists and the public understand individual cases. These postings do not provide a comprehensive description of the law. In fact, they will surely contain statements that were true at the time but have become less valid as the law continues to develop.

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March 20, 2008

ABC story on abduction victims in Japan

Link: ABC News: Little Hope for U.S. Kids Abducted Abroad?

This story, subtitled "American Parents Have Little Hope of Being Reunited With Children Kidnapped to Japan" has a lot of good and surprising information about how backward Japan's legal system is regarding custody, visitation, enforcement and child abduction, and how awful the results are for international families.


Posted by John Crouch on March 20, 2008 in Abduction: Other Hague Convention Issues | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

March 14, 2008

Hague Abduction Convention Takes Effect With More Countries

Since last time we reported on ratifications of the Hague Convention, it has become effective between the US and several countries. (With many countries, it becomes effective with the US not when the country "ratifies" the Convention, but when the US accepts their "accession" to it. Here are the latest, from the US State Department's official list:

Sri Lanka
San Marino
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Paraguay
01/01/08

Ukraine
09/01/07

Peru
El Salvador
Dominican Republic
06/01/07

Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
05/01/07

Posted by John Crouch on March 14, 2008 in Abduction: Other Hague Convention Issues | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)