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Kasi Flatt-Thursby (FSU) wrote8 minutes ago
http://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/brasilcomz/I don't know if this has been posted yet, but I stumbled across this article written by O Globo. Bizarrely enough, it talks about other children that are being held there. This is a sad story they wrote about dealing with a little girl. I used an online translator so it's not the best, but I just wanted to share, so sad:
David Goldman is not the only father to fight in court to have the Brazilian son back.
Marty Pate fighting since 2006 to bring back his daughter Nicole, in 7 years, to Texas. And the Canadian Francois Larivee came back to win order of Federal Court in Brasilia, but when I went for the child of 5 years, the mother disappeared with the child.
With globalization, the world celebrates more multinational marriages, thus increasing the chance of being followed by a divorce custody battle for international.
The U.S. State Department claims that in Brazil there are only 50 children awaiting foreign decision to return to their countries of origin. In 2003, the U.S. came with a request for repatriation of 169 children who are around the world, according to information from the Financial Post.
But the U.S. also received petition from other nations to return 286 children, an annual increase of 23%. Canada has already received requests from 56 families.
Pate agreed that the wife Monica Dutra led the daughter to Brazil for two weeks. But today is processing up to the employer's ex-wife to have it used in Brazil and have purchased a plane ticket for their return journey.
But the struggle of Larivee has more similarities with the 'if Goldman. " The ex-partner Ione won the first instance in the Family Court in Rio de Janeiro, claiming that his father "abandoned the child." Larivee able to reverse the decision and took the case to Federal Court.
In October 2007, the Brazilian Justice ordered that the boy Ione return to Canada. But when Larivee arrived in Brazil to meet with the child, the Brazilian ran away with the child.
At the time, says the "Financial Post," the father of Ione said "Francois is a good guy, but my daughter is a lion and will fight to the end. You will never have this child back, "said Mr identified as Hamois.
Two days later, the vice president of the court of appeal gave Ione the right to withhold the child. Now the struggle in the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice in Brasilia, to neutralize all its losses in 2.5 years of legal battle.
When asked if fighting continues, Larivee said he did "everything they could, all right." The only thing I would do differently, he said, "may not marry with Brazilian ever."
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