Velasquez v. Funes De Velasquez

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JAMES C. CACHERIS, District Judge.

On December 11, 2014, Oscar Edgardo Velasquez, an El Salvadorian citizen (“Os*799car” or “Petitioner”), filed suit in this Court against his now-estranged wife Maria Teresa Funes de Velasquez, also an El Salvadorian citizen (“Maria” or “Respondent”), under the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, 22 U.S.C. § 9001 et seq. (“the Act”), seeking the return of his two minor daughters. The Act implements the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, T.I.A.S. No. 11,670, 19. I.L.M. 1501, 1988 WL 411501 (Oct. 25,…