Legal Opinion
Whallon v. Lynn
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 27, 2000No. 00-2041PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
In May 2000, Richard Charles Whallon, Jr. petitioned for the return of his five-year-old daughter, Micheli Lynn Whallon King, to Mexico pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. See Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, T.I.A.S. No. 11,-670, 19 I.L.M. 1501 (1980). 1 Micheli had been taken by her mother, Diana Lynn, from Mexico, where all three had lived, to Massachusetts. Lynn says that she was entitled to do so, inter alia, because Whal-lon never had the type of “rights of custody” as to…
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