Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2013 (25. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)
2013-09-27 / 37. szám
Hungarian Girl May Stay in U.S. A 14-year-old Hungarian girl whose father petitioned for her return to Hungary after she was brought to the United States two years ago by her mother can stay in the United States even though she and her mother are undocumented, a federal judge has ruled. The father, Gyula Janos Jakubik, in June filed a repatriation petition for the girl’s return pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which allows a parent alleging a breach of their custody rights to attempt to repatriate the child to the state of their “habitual residence.” Though the mother, Eva Schmirer, was granted custody of the girl in 2006 by a Hungarian court, Jakubik, her ex-husband, was granted visitation every other weekend. The girl’s move to the United States deprived him of that right, he argued. But in an opinion dated July 26, Southern District Judge Paul Engelmayer said Schmirer and the girl had successfully showed she had settled into her new environment, one of four possible defenses to the convention’s International Child Abduction Remedies Act, and that returning her to Hungary would be harmful and disruptive. Engelmayer heard Matter of Direct From Budapest, The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: Hungarian Rhapsody SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28.8 PM ANGYALFI RENT- A-CAR AUTÓBÉRLÉS MAGYARORSZÁGON A. Suzuki Swift 1.0 manual 150 usd/hét B. Fiat Punto 1.2, Opel Corsa 1.2, Suzuki Swift II 1.3 manual, air.c 190 usd/hét C. Suzuki SX4 1.5 manual, air.c 220 usd/hét D. Opel Astra 1.4 manual, air.c 250 usd/hét E. Honda City 1.5, Chevrolet Aveo 1.6 automatic, air.c 270 usd/hét Korlátlan km használattal, biztosítással és adóval. Repülőtéri átadással és átvétellel Bécsben is (plusz költség). 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At that point, Schmirer sued and won custody. The Hague Convention requires respondents to prove that a child is so settied into a new environment that repatriation would not be in his or her best interest. In the United States, the girl and her mother testified, the girl has been living with her mother and maternal grandparents, has many friends, is doing well academically and speaks near-perfect English. Engelmayep expressed concern in his opinion that Schmirer is unemployed and that she and her daughter are undocumented. But he denied the father’s repatriation petition, he said, because the respondents showed the girl lives in a “safe, comfortable home environment” and has available avenues to obtaining legal status. “Indeed, given the tragic and heart-rending turbulence of her former life in Hungary, the Court concludes that she is today settled for the first time in her life,” Engelmayer wrote. “Her acclimation and assimilation to the United States are in fact exceedingly impressive.” The girl was represented pro bono by Jennifer Baum, a professor with the St. Vincent de Paul Legal Program’s Child Advocacy Clinic at St. John’s University School of Law, along with students Pamela Weintraub and Kristin Lee; as well as by O’Melveny & Myers lawyers Greg Jacob, Karen Koniuszy and Courtney Wen. “It was a very, very just ruling that was really consistent, not only with the convention but with the safety and welfare of the child,” Baum said. “The court found she was sufficiently mature enough to decide for herself she wanted to stay here.” law.com „[Erősítse egészségét, növeCje szépségét és ßoidogsägdt” Mindezt elérheti rendelőnkben: Susan Pekarovics, M.D. Belgyógyász szakorvos, endocrinológus, Fibromyalgia specialista Klinikánkon megtalálható: 1. 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