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Divorced Fathers in Japan

Here’s an A.P. article published in the Mainichi Daily News in Japan on attempts to change the law there to allow joint custody or visitation rights after divorce. Thanks to Vera Fry for sending the link.

Single Parenting in Korea

An interesting story in today’s New York Times by Choe Sang-Hun reports on the challenges faced by unmarried Korean women in who have decided to raise children as single parents. Of single women who give birth in South Korea, about 70 percent relinquish their children for adoption. The Times

Child Support Treaty in the Senate

The 2007 Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance made it to a hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week. Information on the hearing is available here; the text of the treaty and comme

Abbott v. Abbott

As the Supreme Court begins its new term this week, their docket includes a Hague Child Abduction case for the first time. The case is Abbott v. Abbott, 542 F.3d 1081 (5th Cir. 2008).

Abduction and Custody Dispute in Japan

There has been significant media coverage of the case of an American father who was arrested in Japan after he took his children from their Japanese mother as she was walking the children to school. The father’s story has gotten more attention in the U.S., but a pair of stories by the Associated Press this week focus first on his story (“

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