Wim Delvoye, in the Matter of Sebastian Delvoye, an Infant Under the Age of One v. Christina Lee

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• determining habitual residence of a newborn baby through analysis of parents’ shared intent
• determining a child’s “habitual residence” under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction by reviewing the district court’s conclusion as a mixed question of law and fact
• determining habitual residence of a newborn baby through analysis of parents’ shared intent
• habitual residence not established when mother brought only a few suitcases to Belgium and left the rest of her belongings in New York
• “[W]here the conflict [between the parents] is contemporaneous with the birth of the child, no habitual residence may ever come into existence.”
• “[W]here the [marital] conflict is contemporaneous with the birth of the child, no habitual residence may ever come into existence.”

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