China's accession to the Hague Convention signifies a pivotal advancement in global document authentication, fostering unity in the international community. WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, January ...

In that case, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff concluded that the Hague Convention does not specifically bar service by email, so even though China does not accept the convention’s provision ...

Here, Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor, writing for an undivided court, in interpreting the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction as implemented by the International ...

Return to the competent authorities of the previously occupied territory, cultural property which is in its territory, if such property has been exported in contravention of the principles of the 1954 ...

The Hague Convention provides a “civil legal remedy” for the return of children who are unjustly removed or “retained outside their country of habitual residence” in another signatory ...

On Tuesday, the justices will hear oral argument in Golan v. Saada, a case involving the interpretation of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international ...

Under the Hague Convention, children who are wrongfully abducted from the country where they live must be returned to that country, so that custody disputes can be resolved there. The rationale behind ...

The Hague Convention places a high burden of proof on the parent asserting the grave risk of harm defense, requiring that "grave risk" to the child be proven by clear and convincing evidence.