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Domestic Relations: The Hague Convention-Wrongful Removal-Grave Risk Exception
Staff Report//May 10, 2019//
Where a father, who was a citizen of Turkey and the United States, challenged a judgment granted in favor of the mother of the children in a matter brought under The Hague Convention alleging that the mother wrongfully removed the children to the United States, the judgment is affirmed because even though the father had established a prima facie case for wrongful removal, the mother established the grave-risk exception by showing that one of the children needed a kidney transplant in the United States, and the issue of whether the child could be returned after the surgery was not ripe for consideration.
Judgment is affirmed.
Leonard v. Lentz (MLW No. 72592/Case No. 18-1341 – 3 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam) Appealed from U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa.
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