Multi-State Fathers' Rights & Divorce Law Blog

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Thursday, June 9, 2011. Once they are moved to the back burner, not many cold cases stand a realistic chance of being solved. That wasn’t the story for a three-year-old Missouri child abduction case, however. A sheriff’s detective in Pulaski County recently reviewed the case of a 30-year-old woman who allegedly abducted her daughter in 2008 after a long-running child custody dispute with the girl’s father. Two weeks before the incident, a judge had awarded joint custody of the child to the woman and the child’s father. The woman evidently left a note for

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