United States First Circuit

The district court's grant of the father's petition for the return of the parties' children to Singapore pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, as implemented by the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, is vacated and remanded, where: 1) the children lived abroad with their parents for approximately a year and a half after their father's employer temporarily relocated him to Singapore, after which the mother returned to the United States with the children; and 2) the district court erred by determining that the children's place of habitual residence was Singapore without first considering whether the parties intended to retain their habitual residence in the United States while living abroad for a temporary period of fixed duration.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/21/2014
• Published 05/21/2014

Judges

• TORRUELLA

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel