Maria Elena Swett Urquieta v. John Francis Bowe
Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Whether a parent's continued consent to a child's temporary stay abroad resets the date of wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, and whether a court can invalidate such consent based on its own subjective assessment of 'meaningful' consent
are: 1. Whether, under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, a parent ’s continued consent to a child ’s temporary stay ii abroad resets the date of wrongful retention for purposes of Article 12. 2. Whether a court may invalidate a parent’s express consent to a child ’s extended stay abroad based on its own subjective assessment of whether the consent was “meaningful. ” 3. Whether generalized regarding a parent, school, or social life constitute a valid particularized “objection ” sufficient to satisfy the mature child defense under Article 13 of the Hague Convention. 4. Whether “extremely and egregiously toxic” communications between an abducting parent and an abducted child, alongside a child ’s objection that “appeared to emanate ” from the abducting parent, constitute undue influence, thereby invalidating the Article 13 mature-child exception under the Hague Convention. iii STATEMENT OF