What are the circumstances in which a child was removed from the country of his habitual residence to another country without the consent of the other parent?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Suarez v. Carranza, 2008 BCSC 1187 (CanLII):

The circumstances in this case amount to one of the “five types of situations considered to constitute ‘child abduction’” discussed in Thomson v. Thomson, 1994 CanLII 16630 (SCC), [1994], 3 S.C.R. 551 at pp. 580-81: A The child was removed by a parent from the country of the child's habitual residence to another country without the consent of the other parent, at a time when no custody decision had yet been handed down but serious problems between the parents already existed.

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