Kijowska v. Haines

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CASTILLO, District Judge.

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (“Hague Convention”), T.I.A.S. no. 11,670, 19 I.L.M. 1501 (Oct. 25, 1980), was designed to ensure that children who are wrongfully taken — usually by a parent— across international borders are promptly returned and to ensure that comity is given to custody orders issued by foreign courts. (Id. at art. 1.) The International Child Abduction Remedies Act, (“ICARA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 11601 et seq., which implements the Hague Convention, permits a person whose child has been…