Alberto Soto v. Veronica Contreras
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
' RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:
Veronica Lemus Contreras (Lemus), a native and citizen of Mexico residing in the United States, challenges the denial of her grave-risk defense to Alberto Ontiveros Soto’s (Ontiveros) seeking return of their chiíd, A.O.L., to Mexico pursuant, to the Hague Convention on the. Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (Hague Convention), 24 Oct. 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11670, S. Treaty Doc. No. 99-11. At issue is whether the court committed two legal errors in concluding Lemus failed to prove, by the requisite clear and convincing evidence, the existence…
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