On April 9, 2021, the Court of Appeal for the Sixth District of California issued an opinion in the case of Jiaojiao Zhou and Sean Wang. Ms. Zhou and Mr. Wang are the parents to a daughter born in 2013 in China. She lived primarily with her mother in China, and visited her father, who was working … Read More about Case Update (2021): In re Marriage of Wang and Jiaojiao Zhou; registration of a foreign custody order; home state’s order stayed
Case Update (2021): In Re Marriage of Margain; UCCJEA and a foreign country’s declination of jurisdiction
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
Case Update (2020): Stone v. Suzuki; Hague Abduction return petition to be filed where children are located post-abduction; UCCJEA and home state declining to exercise jurisdiction
Mr. Jack Stone is back in court, this time in a state court in Florida, seeking the return of his minor children from Japan. Mr. Stone was previously before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking a U.S. passport for his child, without the child's mother's consent, … Read More about Case Update (2020): Stone v. Suzuki; Hague Abduction return petition to be filed where children are located post-abduction; UCCJEA and home state declining to exercise jurisdiction
Case Update (2020): Karimah K and Bassim A; Home State under the UCCJEA
In February 2020, the Family Court in Kings County, New York addressed a custody jurisdiction issue between New York and Yemen in the case of Karimah K and Bassim A. The parents were married in 2002 in a Muslim Religious ceremony in Yemen. They remained in Yemen until 2005, at which time … Read More about Case Update (2020): Karimah K and Bassim A; Home State under the UCCJEA
Case Update (2020): Olarinde v. Korede; UCCJEA home state, temporary absence due to child abduction
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals issued an unreported opinion in the case of Olarinde v. Korede on August 20, 2020. In the opinion, the court examined subject matter jurisdiction and whether Maryland was the "home state" of the parties' children so that Maryland could issue its initial … Read More about Case Update (2020): Olarinde v. Korede; UCCJEA home state, temporary absence due to child abduction