NRIs for law to deal with parental abduction |
Increasing cases of parental abduction, under which a parent living in a foreign country takes back the child to India without informing his or her spouse, prompted a group of US-based NRI parents to approach the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking its direction to the Centre to frame a law to deal with such cases. They contended that there was lack of clear guidelines on the issue of jurisdiction and procedural aspects pertaining to international parental child abduction cases which were being filed by estranged couples both in India and the country of their residence, resulting in simultaneous proceedings in two different courts. They said the Centre was not taking steps to ratify the 1980 International Convention on Child Abduction despite the Law Commission`s recommendations. International Parental Child Abduction (IPCA) is the illegal removal of children from their home country by a parent to a foreign country or the illegal retention of children in a foreign country without the other parent`s consent or a court order from the jurisdiction where the children habitually reside.
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