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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): In re Marriage of Pitcairn; inconvenient forum, divorce petition dismissed

July 8, 2021

On June 30, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Iowa affirmed the trial court's dismissal of Ms. Pitcairn's petition for marriage dissolution on the basis of forum non conveniens. Ms. Pitcairn and Mr. Renaud married in France in 2005, lived most of their marriage in France, Mr. Renaud is French and Ms. … Read More about Case Update (2021): In re Marriage of Pitcairn; inconvenient forum, divorce petition dismissed

Category icondivisible divorce,  divorce,  foreign divorce,  forum non conveniens,  inconvenient forum,  Premarital Agreements,  property

Case Update (2021): Pokrovskaya v. Van Genderen; UCCJEA inconvenient forum

June 15, 2021

Mother and Father divorced in Wyoming in 2016. They are parents to one child. The Wyoming Court awarded Father custody, with Mother having 10 days of visitation each month. The Mother resided, and continues to reside, in Russia. In 2018, the Father and child moved to Russia, spent the 2019 … Read More about Case Update (2021): Pokrovskaya v. Van Genderen; UCCJEA inconvenient forum

Category iconContempt Proceedings,  continuing exclusive jurisdiction,  inconvenient forum,  modification,  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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