United States Seventh Circuit

Judgment ordering the father of a child to return the child to her mother in Poland after the mother brought a suit under the Hague Convention is affirmed where an Illinois custody grant was irrelevant and unenforceable since the child's habitual residence was Poland and Poland awards custody to unwed mothers, thus any custody dispute must proceed under the laws of that country.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/20/2006
• Decided 09/08/2006
• Published 09/08/2006

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, ROVNER, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel M. Noland, Dykema Gossett, Chicago, IL, Paul J. Richards (argued), Dykema Gossett Rooks Pitts, Joliet, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Ernest K. Koehler (argued), Arlington Heights, IL, Gary J. Gottfried, Columbus, OH, for Defendant-Appellant.