Edward M. Feder v. Melissa Ann Evans-Feder

OPINION OF THE COURT

MANSMANN, Circuit Judge.

In this case of first impression for this circuit, we have before us a petition filed by one parent against the other under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Edward M. Feder asserts that Melissa Ann Evans-Fed-er “wrongfully retained” their son, Charles Evan Feder (“Evan”), in the United States and requests that Evan be returned to him in Australia. Concluding that the United States was Evan’s “habitual residence”, Hague Convention, Article 3a, the district court held that the retention was not wrongful and…