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decline jurisdiction

Case Update (7 June 2022): Dixon v. Smith; continuing exclusive jurisdiction declined for a more appropriate forum

June 27, 2022

The parties and their 2 children are Canadian citizens who migrated to the United States in 2014. They divorced in Delaware in 2016, and in 2018, after a full merits trial, the Delaware Family Court permitted the mother to relocate the children to Canada. In February 2021, the father filed a suit in … Read More about Case Update (7 June 2022): Dixon v. Smith; continuing exclusive jurisdiction declined for a more appropriate forum

Category icondecline jurisdiction,  inconvenient forum,  UCCJEA

Case Update (2021): Lorenz v. Lorenz; custody jurisdiction & Hague Abduction suit

June 24, 2021

The Lorenz family has been at the center of litigation in multiple court cases in the United States. In May 2021, they had two separate opinions issued in two separate cases. This is aside from the custody case pending in the German courts. Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz married in 2000 and have two … Read More about Case Update (2021): Lorenz v. Lorenz; custody jurisdiction & Hague Abduction suit

Category iconabduction,  Child Abduction,  decline jurisdiction,  Hague Abduction Convention,  home state,  jurisdiction,  UCCJEA

Case Update (2021): In Re Marriage of Margain; UCCJEA and a foreign country’s declination of jurisdiction

April 27, 2021

I will no doubt be using this case, In Re Marriage of Margain, as an exam question for my law students. Mother and Father married in Mexico in 2007, and had their child in California in 2008.  In 2010, and for at least a year and a half, the Mother and child moved to and lived in Mexico.  The … Read More about Case Update (2021): In Re Marriage of Margain; UCCJEA and a foreign country’s declination of jurisdiction

Category icondecline jurisdiction,  Habitual Residence,  Hague Abduction Convention,  home state,  inconvenient forum,  jurisdiction,  UCCJEA

Case Update (2021): Koivu v. Koivu; inconvenient forum under UCCJEA

March 30, 2021

In the unreported opinion of Koivu v. Koivu, the Minnesota Court of Appeals addressed the issue of whether Minnesota should decline jurisdiction over the Koivu children's custody because it was an inconvenient forum as compared to Finland.  The couple lived in Minnesota for the better part of … Read More about Case Update (2021): Koivu v. Koivu; inconvenient forum under UCCJEA

Category icondecline jurisdiction,  Finland,  forum non conveniens,  inconvenient forum,  UCCJEA

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