Child Abduction Legal Information

In your experience, what is your understanding about the reasons why parents make the choice to unlawfully leave the jurisdiction with a child?

• Lack of skills to resolve differences amicably.
• Compulsion for revenge.
• Trying to force a reconciliation.
• Desire to escape physical, sexual, verbal and emotional abuse.
• Removing the child from a real or perceived physical and/or emotional threat of injury.
• Uncertainties over custody orders and court proceedings.
• Lack of family support in Canada.