United States Tenth Circuit

A child, the subject of a custody dispute between her parents in Germany, was not removed to the U.S. by the mother in breach of the father's custody rights under German law, and thus the removal was not wrongful under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/08/2002
• Published 07/08/2002

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR and HENRY, Circuit Judges, and OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen J. Cullen of Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Baltimore, MD, (Jamison G. White of Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Baltimore, MD;  and Murray Ogborn and David Laird of Ogborn, Summerlin & Ogborn L.L.C., Denver, CO, with him on the briefs), for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Captain Greg B. O'Dea, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Fort Carson, CO, for Respondent-Appellee.