Mussallam v. Mussallam

MEYER, Justice.

In 1981 the plaintiff-husband, Hussein Sayyed Mussallam, a Kuwaiti, obtained a divorce from his Finnish wife, the defendant Eeva Hannelle Mussallam, in Kuwait, but did not then seek custody of the child of the marriage. About six months later, the husband filed an action in Finland, where the wife and minor child were then living, seeking custody of the child. The Finnish court granted custody to the wife. In 1985 the wife brought the child to Greensboro, North Carolina, for a visit with the husband who was then a student at North Carolina A&T State University. The husband took…