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Hearing on Child Abduction in the House
The House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health and Human Rights convened a hearing on July 28, 2011 to address ”Improving Implementation of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.” Witnesses included two members of the State Department: Susan Jacobs, special adviser for children’s issues, in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, and Kurt Campbell, [...]
Hague Child Support Legislation Introduced
Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) have introduced S. 1383, the “Strengthen and Vitalize Enforcement of Child Support (SAVE Child Support) Act,” which provides for implementation in the United States of the 2007 Hague Child Support Convention. The bill, which would require all states to enact the 2008 amendments to the Uniform Interstate [...]
Russia Joins Child Abduction Convention
On July 28, 2011, the Russian Federation deposited its instruments of accession to the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention, which will come into force in Russia in October 2011. The Convention will not come into effect between the United States and Russia until the U.S. indicates its acceptance of Russia’s accession. The announcement from the [...]
