Tom A. Furnes v. Pamela Kay Reeves

HULL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Tom A. Furnes filed a petition under the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 11601-11611 (1988) (“ICARA”), seeking the return of his daughter Jessica to Norway from Georgia, where she now resides with her mother, Defendant Pamela Kay Reeves. Jessica was born in Norway in 1996 and lived there until 2001, when her mother visited the United States and later refused to bring Jessica back to Norway, in violation of Furnes’s rights under Norwegian law and their custody agreement. After an evidentiary hearing, the district court denied Plaintiff…