HC/E/AT 381
AUSTRIA
Oberster Gerichtshof
Superior Appellate Court
HUNGARY
AUSTRIA
24 April 1992
Final
Rights of Custody - Art. 3 | Grave Risk - Art. 13(1)(b)
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The question whether or not a person has the right of custody shall be determined in accordance with the law of the country where the child had his habitual residence. By a provisial decision which became final the competent Hungarian child welfare authority had transferred custody of both children to their grandmother. Custody proceedings had been pending before the competent Hungarian courts at the time the children had been removed.
Only unusually severe endangerment of a child´s welfare precludes a child´s return. The parents who had improperly removed the children did not succeed in proving any reasons for the non-return under Article 13(1)(b) of the Convention.
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