Parental Kidnapping
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
Law School
To: Prof. Andrés Córdova Phelps
Student's Dean
From: Hernan Marrero
L00012480
Date: December 13, 2005
Re: Parental Kidnapping
Since the 1970s, the State Department estimates that it has been contacted for help in about 11,000 international child abductions where a parent was involved. The State Department estimates an average of 400 to 500 new international cases per year. A recent study by the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law shows that in 60 percent of international abduction cases, the children are never returned even though their whereabouts are known. To resolve custody disputes and jurisdictional involving different countries caused by the international abduction of children, the international law adopted in October 25, 1980 the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Convention provides common rules and procedures to......
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