Belay v. Getachew

How courts have described this case

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• holding that stability factor weighed in favor of well-settled defense where child had lived at only one address since moving to the United States
• noting that a certain age may be required for a child to become settled and finding that at the age of nine a child was “now old enough to experience meaningful ties with the United States”
• “[A]ll of the courts to have touched upon the issue . . . have uniformly held that the filing of a petition in the courts ‘commences’ the judicial proceedings under the Convention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).