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Family Law
PIL Conventions to Which the U.S. is a Party
- Hague Convention on International Child Abduction (1980)
Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference)
U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of Children's Issues (U.S. Central Authority)
- Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption (1993)
Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference)
Senate Treaty Doc. 105-51 (Letters of Transmittal and Submittal) - Hague Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation for the Protection of Children (1996)
Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference) Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults (1999)
Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference)
- United Nations Convention on International Family Support (1956)
[Text not yet available on line] - Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations Toward Children (1956)
Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference) - Hague Convention Concerning the Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions Relating to Maintenance Obligations Toward Children (1958)
Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference) - Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions Relating to Maintenance Obligations (1973)
Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference) - Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations (1973)
Text, status, background material, and bibliography (at the Hague Conference)
International Support Enforcement
- Parallel Unilateral Policy Decisions: Document Submitted by the U.S. Delegation Report to the Hague Conference Special Commission Session on Maintenance Obligations, Nov. 13,1995
- U.S. Delegation Report on Hague Conference Special Commission Session, Nov. 13-17, 1995 on Various Conventions Concerned with International Support Enforcement
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