Klam v. Klam’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 11601 (International Child Abduction Remedies Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 11603 · 42 U.S.C. § 11604
Relies on Small v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · 151 Misc. 2d 630 - David S. v. Zamira S. · Giddings v. Giddings · In re Felix C. · Ann F. v. Bennett S.
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“Dear Mr. Rooney, This is to thank you for effecting the prompt return of the child Oscar Eger-vary to his mother in Hungary under the auspices of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and to briefly review the background of the case ... Oscar Egervary was born in the United States July 4, 1992, and at the age of approximately eight months was taken by his parents to Hungary, where both mother and father are citizens. (The father is also a U.S. citizen.) The parents separated in the summer of 1993 and the mother was granted temporary custody by a Hungarian court pending the couple’s divorce. Hungarian police reports indicate that in December 1993 the father and his brother accosted Mrs. Egervary in the street in Budapest and kidnapped the child. Mrs. Egervary attempted to hang on to the departing car, but fell off. She immediately filed a police report, and soon after filed an application for the return of her son under the Hague Convention which was received in this office in March, 1994. At the time of his abduction, Oscar Egervary had lived for 10 months in Hungary and eight months in the United States. In addition, the information provided this office indicated that the parents had intended resettlement in Hungary, in that their car and personal effects had been sent there and an apartment in Pennsylvania had been vacated. It seemed clear that Oscar Egervary’s country of habitual residence was Hungary and that Mrs. Egervary’s claim of ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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