International Child Custody Dispute?

New York Family Law Lawyer Carla Barone

Video Transcript: 

Rob Rosenthal:

What should a parent do if they have children with a person who's a citizen of another country and child custody is in dispute? We ask New York City lawyer Carla Barone for an Ask the Lawyers Quick Question.

Carla Barone:

So knowledge about the Hague Convention and the Uniform Child and Custody Jurisdiction Act is really important to know if those children are subject to being brought to a territory, it is not a signatory to the Hague. In those cases, it's harder to get intervention to bring a child back to the United States or vice versa, so always having an idea where the passports are, who has control of the passports, which country the children and the parties are citizens of is very, very important. And then just having an understanding and ideally an agreement in place about travel.

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