Legal Opinion

Navani v. Shahani

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided July 30, 2007No. 06-2159PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.

Bina Shahani appeals the district court’s order granting John Navani’s petition that their son be returned to England, the child’s country of habitual residence, pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and its implementing legislation, the International Child Abduction Remedies Act. The district court concluded that Sha-hani wrongfully retained the boy in the United States without Navani’s consent in violation of his rights of custody over the child as defined under English law, and that no exception to the mandatory return…

2Cases cited24 opinions

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