Japan's Gov't Proposes Hague Convention Implementing Legislation"Child-custody procedures proposed, but conditions apply" - Asahi Shimbum 1/24/12 via Patrick Braden at Global Future Everything in it sounds like straightforward appliaction of the Hague Convention, although one can guess that the Convention's exception to returning children who face
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Court: Hague Convention is different from jurisdiction/enforcement casesThis new Colorado case does not break any new ground, but it helpfully discusses the difference between a Hague Convention child abduction case and a case about child cusotdy jurisdiction questions under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
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Parent's report on meeting with Japan's justice minister about custody & Hague ConventionI don't know who the author is, nor the merits of his case, but this transcription of his meeting provides an interesting window into official Japanese attitudes about child custody, how different Japan is but also how much change is
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Japan has begun child custody transfers/enforcement in 120 cases; 48% complyJapan's courts basically never transfer child custody, leaving the children with whoever takes them when the parents first separate, and not even ordering visitation with the other parent. But that seems to be changing in a few cases. The unusual
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Prosecution, investigation rare in green-card wedding scams"Prosecution rare in wedding scams" by CALLUM BORCHERS and STEPHEN KURKJIAN of the Initiative for Investigative Reporting in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston. Excerpts: By some government estimates, as many as 60,000 of the 200,000 or
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?#Japan Gov't Plans to Submit Bill Endorsing #Hague #Abduction Convention"Gov't eyes submitting bill in March to endorse int'l child custody pact" Mainichi Shimbun 1/6/12 via Ron Nelson The planned submission of the bill during the regular Diet session to be convened later this month is in line with Prime
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UK Gov't moves to ensure visitation after divorce or separationDivorced parents will have right to see their children under new law Those who refuse to accept ruling could risk jail Daily Mail 1/6/12, via Joint Custody in Japan Ministers are drawing up new rules to put courts under a
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American wives of deportees put marriage first, band together in adversityAmerican-born wives married to U.S. deported or banned spouses band together via online networks - NY Daily News (via Mayra Calo)
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Clinton urges Japan to act on child abductionsLike most such stories this oversimplifies a couple things in the interests of reporting the biggest, most relevant truths, which is about as good as news reporting gets. Caveats: It's usually, but not always, the foreign and male parents who
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