Application of Ponath

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER

SAM, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on petitioner’s Motion for Return of Child pursuant to the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 11601-11610 and the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on October 25, 1980 (the “Hague Convention”). Petitioner alleges that the parties’ minor child was wrongfully removed by respondent from the Federal Republic of Germany (“Germany”) to the United States of America (“United States”).

An evidentiary hearing was held on Monday, August 2, 1993, with…