Frankie Shama Successfully Obtained a Summary Return Order to the USA in a Hague Convention case.

Frankie Shama, instructed by Helen Blackburn of The International Family Law Group, represented the applicant’s mother in summary return proceedings under the 1980 Hague Convention. Frankie successfully obtained a summary return order to the USA in respect of the 14-year-old child, despite the child’s objections to returning. The court rejected the respondent father’s argument that the applicant mother was not exercising her rights of custody whilst in hospital at the time of the child’s removal.

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