child-abduction
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-666 | Samantha Estefenia Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | child-abduction clear-error de-novo-review habitual-residence hague-convention well-settled-defense | Is a trial court's determination that a child is "well settled" subject to de novo review, or is it reviewed for clear error? |
| 24-7482 | Raphael Stein, Acting on Behalf of His Minor Children J. S., Z. N., and A. Z. v. Adeena Kohn | Second Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | IFP | child-abduction custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-law one-year-exception | Whether an actual breach of custody rights must occur to establish wrongful retention under the Hague Convention, or if mere notice of an intended fut… |
| 24-1205 | Maria Elena Swett Urquieta v. John Francis Bowe | Second Circuit | 2025-05-27 | Denied | Response Waived | child-abduction hague-convention international-law mature-child-defense parental-consent undue-influence | 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 … |
| 24-1119 | Andrew Charles Nisbet v. Spirit Rose Bridger | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | child-abduction custody-determination family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-law | Whether the Hague Convention authorizes a determination that children with no habitual residence are unprotected against international child abduction |
| 23-932 | Minna-Marie Brandt v. Damian Caracciolo | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | child-abduction circuit-court-split country-of-residence custody-rights hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law judicial-procedure treaty-interpretation wrongful-retention | Did the Fourth Circuit below err in concluding—in conflict with the text of the Hague Convention and the cases of this Court and six other circuits'—t… | |
| 21-1060 | Heath Richard Douglas v. Nancy Summers Douglas | Sixth Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | child-abduction family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law settled-purpose wrongful-retention | In cases of wrongful retention, must a district court find a settled purpose to abandon a former habitual residence before concluding that a new habit… | |
| 21-825 | Persephone Johnson Shon v. Bogdan Radu | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-03 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | ameliorative-measures article-13b burden-of-proof child-abduction custody-dispute grave-risk hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law | Whether a district court is required to consider ameliorative measures after finding that a return would expose the child to grave risk |
| 21-797 | Serge Matthew Aluker v. Simin Yan, aka Simin Aluker | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-abduction custody-agreement custody-rights fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-child-abduction-convention hague-convention international-law parental-agreement parental-rights treaty-interpretation | Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision improperly wrote out the Article 3 requirement of the Hague Child Abduction Convention that a parental agreement… |
| 21-5740 | Tiffany Becker v. John Minkiewicz | California | 2021-09-21 | Denied | IFP | child-abduction child-acclimation custody-dispute habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law parental-agreement parental-intent wrongful-removal | Where a child is too young to acclimate to his surroundings, whether a subjective agreement between the infant's parents is necessary to establish his… |
| 20-1034 | Narkis Aliza Golan v. Isacco Jacky Saada | Second Circuit | 2021-01-29 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (16)Relisted (3) | ameliorative-measures child-abduction district-court grave-risk habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction international-law | Whether, upon finding that return to the country of habitual residence places a child at grave risk, a district court is required to consider ameliora… |
| 20-864 | Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II | Minnesota | 2020-12-30 | Denied | child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement | Whether the Minnesota courts' refusal to acknowledge the ultimate outcome of Convention proceedings by a Contracting State and declining to afford com… | |
| 19-6310 | Marilis Yaneth Velasquez Perez v. Jose Candido Diaz Palencia | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abbott-v-abbott appellate-review child-abduction civil-code custody eleventh-circuit guatemalan-civil-code guatemalan-law hague-convention hague-convention-child-abduction international-child-abduction international-custody ne-exeat-rights | Did the lower courts err in determining that retention of the child was wrongful under the Hague Convention despite Guatemalan law giving custody to t… |
| 18-935 | Michelle Monasky v. Domenico Taglieri | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Judgment Issued | Amici (8)Relisted (3) | child-abduction circuit-split clear-error-review de-novo-review domestic-violence habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-agreement standard-of-review | Whether a district court's determination of habitual residence under the Hague Convention should be reviewed de novo, as seven circuits have held, und… |
| 18-661 | Jason Michael Zank v. Liz Lorena Lopez Moreno | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-abduction habitual-residence hague-convention icara international-child-abduction international-law parental-removal passage-of-time retention unilateral-removal | Whether a child's habitual residence can be changed based on one parent's unilateral removal of a child to or retention of the child in another countr… |
| 18-5197 | Akash Dixit v. Tanya Singh Dixit | Georgia | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-abduction divorce-jurisdiction federal-law federal-preemption foreign-nationals hague-convention hague-convention-on-child-abduction immigration immigration-status international-child-abduction international-law jurisdictional-limits state-court-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation | Did the state court err in ignoring/condoning illegal retention of a foreign-citizen-child by the respondent, violating the Hague Convention? |