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The Gitter Standard: Creating a Uniform Definition of Habitual Residence under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
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INTRODUCTION
Each year hundreds of children are kidnapped by one parent and taken across international borders while the other parent suffers from the traumatic loss of a child.1 Between October 1, 2003, and September 30, 2004, 154 of these abducted children were returned after a Hague application had been filed on their behalf.2 The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("Convention")3 was enacted to protect children from parental abduction and illegal...
