habitual-residence
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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? |
| 25A430 | Juliana Sloto v. Christian Karvelid | First Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Presumed Complete | child-custody habitual-residence hague-convention international-law irreparable-harm parental-intent | Whether a child's habitual residence under the Hague Convention can be modified by parental actions demonstrating shared intent to change jurisdiction… | |
| 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… |
| 24-1119 | 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 |
| 24-848 | Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | child-custody circuit-split habitual-residence international-law monasky-standard well-settled-defense | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's habitual-residence analysis conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard in Monasky v. Taglieri by disregarding a child'… | |
| 24A601 | Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Presumed Complete | circuit-court-interpretation custody-rights habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-custody parental-custody | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the Hague Convention in determining a child's habitual residence and parental cust… | |
| 23-5425 | Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Thea Marie Rosasen | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process emotional-abuse ex-parte-order habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-rights return-remedy | Whether the order to vacate trial ex-parte in chambers, revoking granted oral arguments and cross examination, was constitutional |
| 21-7107 | Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by affirming the district court's ruling that Canada had be… |
| 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… | |
| 21-797 | 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… |
| 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… |
| 18-146 | Veronika Marcoski v. Jan Rath | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response Waived | ' 'credibility-determinations" ' 'habitual-residence" ' 'hague-convention" ' 'multi-circuit-split' ' 'newborn-child" appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations district-court habitual-residence hague-convention harmless-error multi-circuit-splits newborn-children | Whether the harmless-error rule applies when a district court expressly relied on clearly erroneous factual findings in its credibility determinations… |