U.S. Supreme Court to Hear International Parental Kidnapping Case

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case interpreting the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Read the article here ( Boston Herald , 6/29/09). The case, Abbott vs. Abbott , involves an issue that we've run into before and that lower federal courts and the courts of various countries disagree over. The Hague Convention was adopted in 1980 to address the then-growing problem of international parental kidnapping. It requires signatory co