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Long-Running Child Custody Dispute with Brazil Resolved

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Oct. 25, 1980, Tias No. 11, 670, 1343 UNTS 49Google Scholar.

2 Joshua, Partlow, Fight for 8–Year–Old Colors Relationship Between U.S., Brazil, Wash. Post, Mar. 13, 2009, at A1Google Scholar; Bradley, Brooks, Brazil: Boy Ordered Returned to US Dad’s Custody, Dec. 22, 2009 Google Scholar, at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091222/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_us_custody_battle; Kirk, Semple & Mery, Galanternick, Boy, 9, and Father Back in U. S. After Reuniting in Brazil, N.Y. Times, Dec. 25, 2009 Google Scholar, at A24; Custody Battle over Brazilian Boy Ends with Father–Son Talk, Wash. Post, Dec. 25, 2009, at A9; Karen De, Masters, Back from Brazil, Seeking an Ordinary Life for a Son, N.Y. Times, Dec. 30, 2009 Google Scholar, at A21.

3 See, e.g., Press Release of Senator Frank Lautenberg, Lautenberg, Menendez Call on Brazilian President to Take Action to Return Sean Goldman to Father (Feb. 5, 2009), at http://lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroorn/record.cfm?id=307802.

4 Kirk, Semple, Court Battle over a Child Strains Ties in 2 Nations, N.Y. Times, Feb. 25, 2009, at A20Google Scholar; Partlow, supra note 2; Brazil: Court Sides with U.S. Father, N.Y. Times, Dec. 17, 2009, at A20

5 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2009/1294, Statement by Secretary Clinton (Dec. 17, 2009), at http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/12/133729.htm.

6 Brazil Court Halts Boy’s Return to U.S., N.Y. Times, Dec. 18, 2009, at A12Google Scholar.

7 Kirk, Semple, Court Wants Boy in Brazil Sent to U.S., N.Y. Times, Dec. 23, 2009, at A6Google Scholar; Kirk, Semple, Facing Deadline, Brazil Family to Give Up Boy, 9, N.Y. Times, Dec. 24, 2009, at A10Google Scholar.

8 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2009/1313, Return of Sean Goldman (Dec. 24, 2009), at http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/12/134047.htm.