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EU Ratifies Protocol to Child Support Convention
At the annual Council on General Affairs of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the European Union signed and ratified the Hague Protocol of 23 November 2007 on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations.
Families Across Borders: The Hague Children’s Conventions and the Case for International Family Law in the United States
Here’s the abstract for my article, published in the January 2010 issue of the Florida Law Review, and available here in pdf format:
Hague Family Maintenance Convention Sent to the Senate
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has transmitted the 2007 Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance to the Senate with its recommendation that the Senate give advice and consent to ratification, subject to several reservations and declarations that are permitted by the treaty. Details are included in Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Executive Report 111-2 (January 22, 2010). The Convention would not be self-executing, and the Repo
Child Support Update
This press release from the Hague Conference reports the conclusion of the Special Commission convened to consider measures to promote and implement the 2007 Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other forms of Family Maintenance. The Special Commission “endorsed a number of practical tools to assist implementation of the Convention, such as a handbook for case workers, profiles of States parties and the development of an implementation checklist” a
Hague Special Commission on Child Support
A Special Commissionon on implementation of the 2007 Hague child support convention will meet in The Hague from November 10 to 17. Items on the agenda include a practical handbook for caseworkers, recommended forms, and a system of country profiles to facilitate cross-border establishment and enforcement of child support orders. The Commission will also consider the feasibility of [...]
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 commentary on it are included in Treaty Document 110-21.