Hugo Castellanos Monzon v. Ingrid De La Roca

McKEE, Circuit Judge.

Hugo Castellanos Monzón 1 appeals the District Court's denial of the Petition he filed pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (the "Convention") 2 and the International Child Abduction Remedies Act ("ICARA"), 3 seeking the return of his minor child, H.C. Subject to certain exceptions, both the Convention 4 and ICARA 5

mandate the return of a child to the custodial parent when the other parent wrongfully removes or retains the child in violation of the requesting parent's custody rights. For the reasons that follow, we will…