What is the purpose of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction?
A. The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction is an attempt to deal with situations where a person has wrongfully taken a child(ren) from one country to another or keeps them in a country without the other parent’s permission or legal authority to do so. In other words, this Convention concerns wrongful removal/retention from the child’s state of habitual residence (country of residence). Q.