If custody battles can get ugly, custody battles where one parent with ties to another country and runs away with the children can be even worse. It isn’t just in America. Here is an article that appeared last month in the Ottawa Citizen.
Countries that signed onto the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction supposedly will return children who have been unlawfully removed to within their borders, but it is a complicated process.
If the country has not signed on, no set process exists and so it can be even more difficult. Read the article here.