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January 03, 2018

Does Hague Convention's One-Year Rule Undermine It, Encourage Abduction & Underground Concealment?

The Hague Convention doesn't exactly have a statute of limitations, but it says that if a case is filed more than one year after the abduction or retention, the judge can consider whether the child is "settled in the new environment." Here's what prizewinning student author Lisa Havilland says about that:

 

“One Year Isn’t Enough: How the Hague Abduction Convention’s One-Year

Limitation Encourages Abductors to Conceal Their Child’s Whereabouts”

By Lisa Havilland, The George Washington University School of Law

ABA First Place Schwab Essay Contest Winner, 2016

 ABA Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 1

Posted by on January 03, 2018 in Abduction: Other Hague Convention Issues |

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