Legal Opinion
Blanca Reyes Valenzuela v. Steve Michel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 15, 2013No. 12-17205PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge NOONAN; Concurrence by Judge REINHARDT.
OPINION
NOONAN, Circuit Judge:
We are tasked with deciding whether twin girls, now resident with their father in the United States, should be returned to *1175their mother in Mexico. The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona ruled that they should not. We affirm.
FACTS
In late 2006, Steve Michel and Blanca Reyes Valenzuela chose to live together in Nogales, Mexico. The twins were born in 2008.
According to Steve’s undisputed testimony, the couple lived together in Nogales, Mexico. The couple agreed in 2009 that to avoid having to cross…
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