District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania June 1, 2004, 04-1150 (Allman v. Coyle)

OPINION

POLLAN, District Judge.

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (“Convention”) was adopted “to secure the prompt return of children wrongfully removed to or retained in any Contracting State” and “to ensure that rights of custody and of access under the law of one Contracting State are effectively respected in the other Contracting States.