Legal Opinion
Haim Shalit v. Cheryl Coppe, A/K/A Cheryl Gardner Shalit
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 14, 1999No. 99-35004PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
In this difficult case of first impression, we are called upon to decide whether the son of an American mother and an Israeli father must be returned to Israel on the alleged basis that the mother’s retention of the child in Alaska was “wrongful” within the meaning of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11,-670 (the “Hague Convention”).
The parties, Haim Shalit and Cheryl Coppe, were divorced in Alaska in 1989. The Alaska state court granted the mother custody of their son, Yarden, with visitation rights…
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