White v. White

MEMORANDUM OPINION

T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.

This International Child Abduction Remedies Act (“ICARA”)1 case presents the post-judgment question — novel in this circuit — whether a prevailing respondent is entitled to the award of attorney’s fees under ICARA. For the reasons that follow, the prevailing respondent is not entitled to the award of fees under ICARA, but is entitled to costs under Rule 54(d)(1), Fed.R.Civ.P.

I.2

Petitioner Malcolm White, a citizen of the United Kingdom, married Respondent *756Soudabeh White, a citizen of Switzerland and Iran, on May 4, 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.…