Determination of a child’s habitual residence in international child abduction cases: charting the way towards harmonization

• Main Authors: Hamid, Abdul Ghafur@Khin Maung Sein, Seine, Khin Maung
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: IIUM Press 2020
• Subjects: K Law (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/87258/7/87258_Determination%20of%20a%20child%E2%80%99s%20habitual%20residence.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/87258/13/87258_Determination%20of%20a%20child%E2%80%99s%20habitual%20residence_WoS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/87258/; https://journals.iium.edu.my/iiumlj/index.php/iiumlj/article/view/575/282

The 1980 Child Abduction Convention is aimed at addressing the increasingly disturbing problem of trans-border parental child abduction, its key mechanism being to promptly return an abducted child to his or her country of ‘habitual residence.’ In essence, habitual residence is established as the c...