Child abduction

The event of the child abduction happens always more frequently. The raising trend is attributable to the simplicity with which, nowadays, is possible to cross borders, but also considering the ulterior increasing trend of marriages among partners of different nationalities. When the separation happens, the different nationalities of the partners creates complex juridical problems regarding the custody of the children, attributable to the different legislations of the respective nations.

This phenomenon is largely dealt by the legislation, although this topic will always have a difficult solution, typically for the sensibility and complexity through which this situations occur. It is not rare that one of the partners takes away its children to its country of origin using as an excuse visiting its relatives, although having no intentions of coming back, eventually keeping the children there, who in this cases are with no doubts considered victims.

Localization of the Minor

Using the consultancy of Intellego can be determinant, especially in one of the phases of the procedure, such as the “localization of the minor”. Often, the real problem that prevents the return home is the lack of identification of the child, as there is no idea where the parent may be, or the known addresses and residence are false. In many cases it happens that children are enrolled in schools that do not actually attend, so they do not really know where to start the research, so that they can at least be sure of the conditions in which the child lives, whether he is healthy, cared for, etc.

The Italian authorities co-ordinate with the local ones in order to ensure the location of the child, but often this stage is made difficult by the parent who makes the best possible for not being found, and everything is lost in bureaucratic lengths and in communication difficulties between the Authorities, which do not help to get the result in the shortest possible time. On the contrary, a private investigator, having more autonomy, can spend all the time it takes to investigate and go directly to the site.

If you do not have much information about your spouse’s life abroad, you will be thoroughly trained to find clues from which to start the research, excluding those that prove useless and thus facilitate the work of the authorities to which the parent will also know more about .

What to do if there is a doubt that an international withdrawal may occur

Do not authorize the transcription of the child’s name on the passport of the other parent.

If the child has to go abroad, make the other parent commit to return to Italy at a given date.

If there is a case of legal separation and there is reason to believe that the child will be entrusted to the other parent, request that it be foreseen in the measure issued by the Judge the ban on expatriation of the child without an explicit and formal Consent of the non-custodial parent.

If you had not been married to the other parent and you never issued a child restraining order, ask for a court order to issue a ban on the expatriation of the child unless the other parent obtains an explicit and formal consensus.

What needs to be done if a minor international abduction has been implemented

If the child has been brought or assumed to have been brought to a State acceding to the Hague Convention or other Convention, the competent authority to deal with the matter is the Central Authority at the Ministry of Justice of Rome , Department for Under-age Justice.

If the State in question has not, however, acceded to any convention, the competence belongs to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Rome – Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies.

The Intellego company specializes in the research and localization of missing adults and minors in foreign countries, especially in Africa and Eastern Europe.

CHILD ABDUCTION

Child abduction

Localization of the Minor

What to do if there is a doubt that an international withdrawal may occur

What needs to be done if a minor international abduction has been implemented

The Intellego company specializes in the research and localization of missing adults and minors in foreign countries, especially in Africa and Eastern Europe.