One day in 2003, Douglas Galbraith discovered that his Japanese wife had left home and…
Australian wife allowed to return home with children
Relocation cases are always extremely difficult for courts to adjudicate on as they usually mean that one parent or the other is going to see a lot less of their children and so there are no winners in all of this. When the children become habitually resident in one country it can be extremely difficult for one parent to get permission from a court to relocate back to their own country as this will naturally mean that the other parent is going to see a lot less of them and so compelling reasons must be put forward. A case in today’s Irish Independent demonstrates this: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/mother-wins-fight-to-take-children-to-australia-35252877.html