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 (“American Arrested in Japan for Snatching Own Kids“) and then her story (“