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Difference between revisions of "The Legislation on Family Law"

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The [http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=conventions.text&cid=24 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction] says what signatory countries must do when someone has wrongfully taken a child into that country. The convention says how someone from the departure country can make an application for an order in the destination country for the return of the child, the defences that can be made to an application, the different orders the court in the destination country can make, and the factors that court must consider in making those orders.
The [http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=conventions.text&cid=24 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction] says what signatory countries must do when someone has wrongfully taken a child into that country. The convention says how someone from the departure country can make an application for an order in the destination country for the return of the child, the defences that can be made to an application, the different orders the court in the destination country can make, and the factors that court must consider in making those orders.
More information about the Hague Convention, including a list of signatory countries can be found in the [[Enforcing_Orders_in_Family_Matters|Enforcing Orders in Family Matters]] page.


===The UN Convention on the rights of children===
===The UN Convention on the rights of children===