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5 decisions turning on child abduction.
The applicant mother (M), a British national serving as a senior diplomat, and the respondent father (F), a dual British and American national, are the parents of two boys, N (12) and S (10). The children were born in England and…
The father, an Indian national with a United States Green Card, lives and works in Texas; the mother is a British national and a qualified doctor. The parties met through a dating app in 2023, underwent a Nikah in the UK and…
The London Borough of Harrow brought public law proceedings in the Family Court concerning child A. The proceedings, begun in the Family Court, were transferred by order of MacDonald J to be heard by a High Court Judge sitting in…
The appellant mother had two children: S, a boy of 14, whose father (F1) she separated from in 2012, and C, a girl of 6, whose father (F2) she married in 2018 and separated from in June/July 2025. The family had always lived in…
LM, aged 3, is the daughter of two Sudanese parents who were brought up and worked in the UAE, where they married in 2021. LM was born in the USA in Summer 2022 and holds US citizenship; the family returned to the UAE shortly…