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Dan Abel > wrote:

> I shared an office with an international felon for a couple of years.
> Of course, I never heard the father's side of the story. The mom says
> she went to visit her parents to get her head together. She claimed her
> husband was mentally abusing her, and she couldn't figure out what to do
> as long as she was still living there. When she got back, she found
> that she was no longer married and no longer had kids. He had divorced
> her and gotten complete custody of the two kids. She was a foreigner,
> and he had important parents. So she took the kids back to the US with
> her, without permission of their dad in New Zealand. Well, New Zealand
> law said that was illegal.

It is illegal. New Zealand is a signatory to the Hague Convention.

Miche

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