Application of Robinson

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MILLER, District Judge.

Philip Robinson petitioned this court for the return of his minor children, Benjamin and Stephanie, to Great Britain pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, December 23, 1981, 51 Fed.Reg. 10,494, 10,498 (1986) [hereinafter Convention], as implemented in the United States by the International Child Abduction Remedies Act (“ICARA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 11601-11610 (1994). The children’s mother, Respondent Kimberly Robinson, removed them from Great Britain and they currently reside with her in Colorado.

The…