Friday, May 24, 2013

International child custody trial begins in Nashville


A trial was to begin Tuesday in federal court in Nashville that will determine what country will decide the fate of 13-year-old twin boys at the center of an international custody battle that extends from Eastern Europe to Middle Tennessee.

The trial won’t determine whether the boys should stay in Tennessee with their father or live in Eastern Europe with their mother, said John Crouch, an Arlington, Va.-based family law attorney who is not involved in the case. The question before U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp is what country gets to decide that matter — Hungary, the U.S. or possibly Romania.

The boys are American citizens who were born in Texas, but have spent the majority of their lives in Hungary, court records show. Their father is an American with family in the Cottontown community of Sumner County. Their mother, a Romanian national with U.S citizenship, has invoked an international treaty claiming the children are being wrongfully retained in Tennessee by their father.

The boys came to Tennessee last year to visit their paternal grandparents in Sumner County for the summer. The father, who was supposed to bring them back to Europe, stayed in the U.S. and filed for divorce.

Read the rest at http://www.tennessean.com/viewart/20130522/NEWS21/305220141/International-child-custody-trial-begins-Nashville

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