United States Second Circuit

The district court's order for the return of father's daughter to him from New York to New Zealand, pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, is affirmed, where: 1) New Zealand was the daughter's habitual residence prior to removal, notwithstanding a lack of stable accommodations during a significant portion of her time there; 2) the daughter's indefinite removal by her mother from New Zealand to New York was contrary to the parties' last shared intent and, therefore, wrongful; and 3) the daughter had not "acclimated” to life in New York such that it was the equivalent of a new habitual residence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/07/2014
• Published 01/07/2014

Judges

• CABRANES

Court

• United States Second Circuit

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