Legal Opinion
Cuellar v. Joyce
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 19, 2010No. 09-35068PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:
Petitioner seeks the return of her daughter to Panama under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The father opposes return; he claims that the mother is neglectful and very poor, that the child has grown used to living in America and that the child’s medical needs cannot be addressed in Panama.
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Richard Joyce built a sailboat and sailed it to Panama, where he met Leyda Cuellar. He’s a college professor; she was an exotic dancer. They married in Panama, where she eventually gave birth to a baby girl whom we call K.C. Leyda lives in…
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