Legal Opinion
De Silva v. Pitts
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 5, 2007No. 06-7046PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PORFILIO, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-appellant S.L.V.M. Cyndie de Silva appeals the judgment of the district court denying her Hague Convention petition for return of her son, Jonathan, to her custody in Canada and allowing him, instead, to remain with his father in Oklahoma pending a custody determination. After “reviewing] the district court’s findings of fact for clear error and its conclusions regarding principles of domestic, foreign, and international law de novo,” Shealy v. Shealy, 295 F.3d 1117, 1121 (10th Cir.2002), we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of…
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