United States Fifth Circuit

Separation from an adopted mother after the trauma of being an orphan and growing up in foster homes is not "grave psychological risk" satisfying Article 13 of the Hague Convention (providing an exception to the law of mandatory return after wrongful removal).

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/27/2000
• Published 11/27/2000

Judges

• DUHÉ, Circuit Judge:, Before DUHÉ, EMILIO M. GARZA and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John K. Grubb (argued), Jacqueline Smith, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew L. Jefferson, Jr. (argued), Jefferson & Mims, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.