The Hague Convention on International Child Abduction set out the objective of promptly returning children who have been wrongly removed from their country of habitual residence. Court systems and administrators should handle these cases expeditiously, preferably within a timeframe of six weeks.
In this, the fourth in a series on the Hague Convention by attorneys Patty Shewmaker and Alexa Lewis of the Law Firm Shewmaker & Lewis, they discuss the importance of central authorities adhering to the guidelines and the ramifications for non-compliance.