Lawyers
A listing of lawyers who have litigated under the Hague Convention and actually
won.
American
Bar Association Center on Children and the Law: "Established in
1978, the ABA Center on Children and the Law's mission is to improve children's
lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice and public policy."
This is a great site for all organizations that deal with parental child
abduction.
American
Bar Association Home Page (ABA): "Your most powerful source for
legal information". This is a membership organization, but they offer
a lot of information to nonmembers under the section called "General
Public Resources" Some of the better and more useful sections are
listed below.
American
Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service: "Lawyer Referral and Information
services are operated as a public service by many state and local bar associations.
Lawyers referral is designed to assist in finding the appropriate service-provider
to help you solve your legal problem. There are two steps to this process.
The first is to determine if you need to see a lawyer. The second step
is referring you to a lawyer who handles your type of case or to an appropriate
community or governmental agency that might be of more help to you. Lawyer
referral can also provide you with information on procedures in the courts
and legal system in your community".
American
Bar Association Legal Services Public Page
American
Bar Association Directory of Pro Bono Programs: "The ABA's Center
for Pro bono helps bar associations, legal services programs and others
develop, expand and improve programs to provide pro bono legal services
to the poor. It is the ABA Center that produces the Directory of Pro Bono
Programs" From this site you can go directly to a state by state listing
of pro bono legal services.
Divorce
Interactive This is a comprehensive site that deals with divorce laws
by state. There is a good listing of publications available.
Divorcenet:
This site lists lawyers by State and Internationally. It gives a link to
each lawyer listed. There is also access to articles written on the subject
of divorce and custody. There is a lot of good reading within each state
section. While this site deals mainly with divorce, the subject of custody
is very important and you should know how custody is handled in each state.
This site will answer your questions about divorce and custody.
Federal
Courts Finder: From the Emory Law School Library. This site lets you
find the Supreme Court and Circuit Court in the U.S. plus the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Good map of the Circuit Courts and the
states they cover.
Guide
to other law sources on the web: I want to thank the law firm of Crouch
and Crouch for permission to use this list on our web. There is so much
at this site you will just have to find time to work through it. You can
get local, State and Federal law. You can get original copies of the PKPA,
ICARA, UCCJA and the new UCCJEA, and a lot more.
Parental
Child Abduction is Child Abuse: by Nancy Faulkner, Ph.D., 1999. "Because
of the harmful effects on children, parental kidnapping has been characterized
as a form of child abuse", reports Patricia Hoff, Legal Director for
the Parental Abduction Training and Dissemination Project, ABA Center on
Children and the Law".
Washburn
University School of Law: This site allows you to access State Laws
and Statutes. You can also access The U.S. Circuit Courts to download case
information. You can also access: