By Mike Curley (Oct. 22, 2021, 6:23 p.m. EDT) – The ninth district on Friday ordered a new trial in a custody battle between a Washington state mother and father in Spain, saying the court denied permission an assessment of whether the father had abused the six-year-old makes the process “fundamentally unfair”.
In a published statement, the three-member panel overturned a Washington federal court order to send Jewel Lazaro’s six-year-old daughter back to her father Seth Basil Colchester in Barcelona, saying the court had misused its discretion in the name of expediency under the Hague Convention.
In the opinion, while neither The Hague …
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