United States Second Circuit

In determining a child's habitual residence under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, a court should first inquire into the shared intent of the parents to fix the child's residence, and then inquire whether the evidence unequivocally establishes that the child has acclimatized to the new location.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/05/2005
• Published 01/05/2005

Judges

• KATZMANN, Circuit Judge., Before:  LEVAL and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges .

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Erick M. Sandler, Dewey Ballantine LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant Yossi Gitter.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul M. Gamble, New York, NY, for Respondent-Appellee Miriam Gitter.