There are many families where the parents have different nationalities. However, many reasons have caused this. These are the rise of multinational corporations and more frequent international travel for work, education and other. And in case such a family breaks up, than the spouses may each look for returning to where he or she thinks home. Thus this may lead to many problems, that are difficulties in enforcing the property, support and custody provisions of the parties' divorce. But there is the solution to this problem and this is The Hague Convention.
 Many countries signed this document. And The United States is not the exception. It is one of 70-odd nations which are signatories to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The Treaty is the United States' law since 1988. This is the international community's attempt that helps to solve the difficult problem of a parent or other party wrongfully taking a child from the child's home to another country and refusing to come back. Very often when seeking return of his or her child from another country parents meet many obstacles. They are connected with persuading the authorities in the country where the child was physically present to honor the custody rights determined under another country's laws. Thus that was the reason for arguing parents kidnapping and re-kidnapping their child back to the country where the kidnapping parent was most comfortable and most protected. But this deed is not good for the child.
In this case The Treaty is the right solution to such problems. With this it is very fast to return a child who has been unduly removed or unduly retained in a country which is different from the child's country of "habitual residence". So, the taking or retention must be in infringement of the "rights of custody" of the parent residing in the country to which the child's return is sought.
What The Treaty does is requiring each nation for establishing a "Central Authority" to process applications for return of children taken or retained in violation of the Treaty. The Office of Children's Issues in the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the Department of State in Washington, D.C is the Central Authority here. So, in case a child is taken or retrained in a foreign country than the wronged parent should quickly submit a written application to the U.S. Central Authority. The application will be sent to the Central Authority in the country where the child is located.
The Hague Convention procedures are a big improvement over being entirely dependent on negotiating the foreign country's labyrinth of custody laws and practices. Nevertheless, the actual return of the child may still require skill, strength of mind, resources, and of course luck by the seeking parent. The Treaty's existence almost certainly deters some would-be abductors who know that illegally snatching a child violates the international values embodied in the Treaty. Acting quickly is what the parent whose child is taken to or retained in a foreign country should do. He or she has to do this for getting the Treaty mechanism moving.
In this way it will help to be prepared for a potentially difficult fight.
Parental relocation cases are handled equally, but under a set of laws that are applicable within the United States.
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