Iain Walker v. Norene Walker

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “any sort of regular contact” with the child qualifies as “exercising ... custody rights” under the Convention
• stating that a wrongful removal did not occur when parents agreed to travel to the United States
• stating that a court has discretion to order the return of the child “even if it finds that the parent opposing the petition has established that one of the [affirmative defenses] applies”
• noting father’s letter requesting specific visitation times “can hardly be characterized as indifferent to custody issues”
• noting that the “actually exercising” standard is a “liberal” one
• not‐ ing that “any sort of regular contact” with the child qualifies as “exercising … custody rights” under the Convention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).