Multi-State Fathers' Rights & Divorce Law Blog

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. As previously reported on this blog, Japan ranks very high in terms of international abductions. In fact, the U.S. State Department reports that since 1994 a total of 321 children have been abducted or moved to Japan without both parent’s permission. Of those 321 children, none have been returned. However, under mounting pressure from the U.S. to change how international child custody arrangements are followed, the Japanese Cabinet has approved a plan that would fall more in line with the Hague Convention on the Prevention of Child Abduction. Now the

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. A mother who broke a custodial agreement and moved her children out of the country has been ordered to pay the father $6.1 million in damages. And while this does not mean that the children – ages 8 and 10 – will be reunited with their father in the U.S., the father’s attorney is hopeful that it may be a step in the right direction with more pressure from Japanese officials for the mother to do the right thing. As reported earlier on this blog, the case itself stems back