Since a substantial part of my practice concerns the prevention of
potential international child abduction, it is often of great importance to provide courts with a useful source of reliable evidence concerning such risk factors.
It is impossible to evaluate the true risks that arise from authorizing
international child visitation, or from failing to effectively prevent
international child abduction, without considering the laws and procedures of the foreign country that will apply once the
child is physically in the foreign country, and without evaluating the effectiveness of the foreign legal system in remedying the
potential wrongful retention of the
child in that country.