Journe v. Journe

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing \a valid waiver of a legal right requires both knowledge of its existence and an uncoerced intent to relinquish it.\
• recognizing “a valid waiver of a legal right requires both knowledge of its existence and an uncoerced intent to relinquish it.”
• concluding petitioner waived his Hague Convention remedies by voluntarily dismissing custody proceedings in country of habitual residence after the alleged wrongful retention by respondent
• petitioner failed, for almost six months, to make any meaningful effort to obtain return of the minor child
• voluntary dismissal of custody action treated as waiver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).