Current documents on revision of family law-related treaties

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Ongoing Revisions and possible US action on Hague Convention on Protection of Minors and international conventions on international support enforcement, considering the effect of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on earlier conventions, incl. Child Abduction

You may be interested how the administration is dealing with questions raised by the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. The State Department has made available documents produced by revisers, and by the U.S. delegation, concerning major revisions to the 1961 Hague Convention on Protection of Minors and various international conventions on international support enforcement. The revised Hague convention is discussed in A UCCJA FOR THE WHOLE WORLD?, by Richard Crouch.

Documents on international conventions on international support enforcement:
Read US Delegation Report || Download it as wp5 or ascii
Read Documents submited by US delegation || Download them

Revision of 1961 Hague Convention on Protection of Minors:
Text of Convention and U.S. Commentary || Download
Read Report, part 1 || Download
Read Report, Part 2 || Download
Read Conclusions of 1st meeting thereon || Download
Read Possible revision provisions || Download

You can either 1) bring the documents onscreen and then either read or save as text files, or 2) download WordPerfect 5.1 versions or ASCII text verisons directly IF you have a zip/unzip file compression program such as pkunzip. (Stuffit won't work). These are somewhat long for reading online, although I have skimmed them in a not-too-successful effort to find out what was going on. If you have Miscosoft Word on a Macintosh or a PC, and have an unzipper, you can download the WordPerfect and then turn it into MSW with your "Windows Metafile Converter," found in MSW's "Word Commands" folder (or directory). You can also use the "Converter" to turn a text file into MSW, but then you'll end up with a fixed "return" at the end of every line and occasionally some mysterious computer gibberish.

By the way, the original source of these links is the State Department's DOSFAN. That site is also scheduled to include at some point the conventions on service of process and taking evidence abroad, so you may want to check for updates.

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