William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Sawyer" > Subject: RE: Wish Me Luck > > >> Also, the court is dealing >> with American citizens, give it great credit for protecting it's own - > > I thought they were supposed to be unbiased and impartial. Are you implying > that American courts act improperly? > > William Robb > >
No, courts are supposed to apply the law. And it's a simple fact that the Law normally only assigns rights to citizens and legal residents or visitors of a country. In other words, because they are legally in the US, Grace, her mother, and Paul have more rights in an American court than a foreigner who is currently residing in another country and isn't in the US. The same basic idea applies in Canada and the UK (the latter to some extent, as it's Common Law, but the EU treaties probably override it to some extent). The only rights of a foreigner bringing a foreign suit to US courts for enforcement is whatever limited treaty rights that exist between the Country in question and the US (or as part of a multi-party treaty, usually associated with the UN). Not to mention that under most states family law (And Canadian Family Law, which is nearly indistinguishable from US law on this front), it's nearly impossible for a father to get custody of a child (this is why you hear regularly about 3rd world immigrant fathers doing a runner back home with the kids when they lose custody after a divorce. It's by no means the majority, but common enough that you hear about it regularly). -Adam Who has a sad amount of familiarity with Family Law. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
