Opinion
211055
04-19-2022
YURI SASSON, ET AL. v. DANA SHENHAR
Joel R. Zuckerman and James S. Maxwell (MAXWELL BARKE & ZUCKERMAN LLC) for appellants. Michael E. Kinney (MICHAEL E. KINNEY, PLC) for appellee.
Court of Appeals of Virginia; Judges Petty, Beales, and Senior Judge Haley.
Joel R. Zuckerman and James S. Maxwell (MAXWELL BARKE & ZUCKERMAN LLC) for appellants.
Michael E. Kinney (MICHAEL E. KINNEY, PLC) for appellee.
GRANTED APPEAL SUMMARY
Assignment of Error
1. In its order of October 13, 2021, the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing co-petitioner Yuri Sasson's appeal from the decision of the Circuit Court that he continues to be categorically barred by the "Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine" from applying for a vacatur of a still live capias (i.e., arrest warrant provision) included in a 2006 Circuit Court Hague Convention contempt order directing the return to the United States of the parties' then four-year-old son, Ilan, now an adult and sui juris.
Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Oct. 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11, 670, 19 I.L.M. 1501, as implemented by the International Child Abduction Remedies Act, 42 U.S.C. 11601 et. seq.
Son was born on March 21, 2002, is now 19 years of age, and was 18 at the time this lawsuit was commenced. [These footnotes were included in the original assignment of error.]