Where a child moves lawfully from one Member State to another and acquires a new
habitual residence there, the courts of the Member State of the child's former
habitual residence shall, by
way of exception to Article 8, retain jurisdiction during a three - month period following the move for the purpose of modifying a judgment on access rights issued in that Member State before the child moved, where the holder of access rights pursuant to the judgment on access rights continues to have his or her
habitual residence in the Member State of the child's former
habitual residence.
The Convention establishes a presumption in favour of ordering the summary return of the child, designed to restore the status quo ante by
way of a «prompt return» of the child to the place of his or her
habitual residence (see for example, VW v DS, [1996] 2 SCR 108 (CanLII), at para 36).