United States Fourth Circuit

Holding that petitioner was not entitled to seek the return of his daughter to Germany under the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of Child Abduction is reversed where petitioner retained at least joint custody over his daughter because no competent German court has entered an order granting respondent sole custody.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/14/2006
• Decided 04/17/2006
• Published 04/17/2006

Judges

• Before SHEDD and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and JAMES P. JONES, Chief United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Michael Alexander Johnson, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Laurence James Tracy, Falls Church, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Thomas Holsten, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.