Maurice Didon v. Alicia Castillo

OPINION

GREENAWAY, JR., Circuit Judge.

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1 allows a parent 2 to petition for the return of a child when that child has been re moved or retained from her “habitual residence” country in violation of the parent’s custody rights in that country. The petition at issue in this case concerns two children (A.D. and J.D.) retained by their mother in the United States who hail from the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. That 34-square-mile island is comprised of two legally distinct, yet highly integrated, countries—French Saint…