“I am proud to have presented with my esteemed colleagues, Max Blitt from Calgary, Jeremy Morley from New York and esteemed associate, Tiffany Guo on the important issue of grave risk of harm and domestic violence under The Hague child abduction Convention at the 62nd AFCC Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana!”~ Michael...
Max Blitt KC will be co-presenting on the issue of domestic violence and the grave risk of harm defence under the Hague Child Abduction Convention at the AFCC 62nd Annual Conference in May 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Watch for the...
In the recent Alberta Court of Appeal decision in MacDermid v. Aqunio, 2024 ABCA 202, the court upheld the trial judge’s ruling, dismissing the father’s application seeking a ruling under the Hague Convention on Child Abduction that the children’s habitual residence was the Dominican Republic, and that the mother had wrongfully removed or wrongfully retained the children in Canada....
On December 22, 2023, the writer was successful in securing a costs award of 60% of my client’s legal fees. Our client, the left behind father in Denmark, brought a successful Hague Convention Application for the return of his two children to Copenhagen. The mother has remained in Alberta, no doubt because there is a...
On December 19, 2023, in an Edmonton, Alberta King’s Bench trial, FHD Forensics and sister organization, Genealogy For Justice played a key role in an important precedent setting use of Investigative Genetic Genealogy to establish the paternity of a child born out of wedlock to a sex worker in the Philippines. The paternity research was...
Max Blitt KC was the winning trial counsel on Morad v. Iannone, a Florida Relocation...
Valenzuela-Sone v. Barnachea, 2023 ABKB 495, held that the Court has jurisdiction, where appropriate, to grant an interim return-child order where habitually-resident-in-Alberta children have been relocated out of Canada in breach of the Divorce Act’s relocation provisions. By way of background, the parties were married in 1999. They have twin 16-year-old daughters. They physically separated in January 2023....
Max Blitt KC appeared as co-counsel before the Court in Tallinn, Estonia during the last week of April 2023. Originally the case began as a child abduction by the father of his 4-year-old daughter from Tallinn to Edmonton, Alberta. Max Blitt was able to secure the return of the child to Tallinn in November 2020...
On January 24, 2023, Max Blitt KC and Professor Nicholas Bala of Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, made a presentation on behalf of the Family Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario. The topic was ‘International Child Abduction & The Hague Convention: Canadian Context, Law & Practice. See the PDF...
Max Blitt QC- Alberta and Prof. Nicholas Bala-Queen’s University, Ontario will be presenting at the Family Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario Conference June 16-17, 2022, on International Cross-Border Mediation Training. They will provide an Overview of International Law for Children: Child Abduction & Relocation Law, The Fundamentals of the Hague Abduction Convention. See – FDRIO...