Etzion v. Evans

Hill, Presiding Justice.

The State of Georgia is not a sanctuary for child snatchers.

The parties to this appeal were divorced in New York by a decree dated May 25, 1977, which awarded custody of their minor child, a son born in 1972, to the mother. Subsequently the mother and child moved to Connecticut and then to Pennsylvania.1 In testimony before the court below, the father admitted that he presented to the *391New York courts on four separate occasions his fear that his wife, who was born and raised in Israel, would return there with the child, and each time the courts awarded custody to the…