Miranda Fisher comments in the Financial Times on child custody arrangements and the impact of geopolitics
min readGeopolitical escalations can have an impact on families navigating divorce, separation and access to children. The Financial Times reports that the conflict in the Middle East is being used by some divorced or separated parents as a reason to delay or prevent agreed child access arrangements between the UK and the UAE.
Lawyers say safety concerns around travel are sometimes being raised opportunistically, triggering renewed disputes over custody, with the potential for complications to arise because the UAE is not a signatory to the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, making cross-border enforcement difficult.
Flight cancellations, airspace disruptions and differing risk assessments between parents have been identified as exacerbating tensions in family disputes.
Miranda Fisher, Partner in our Family team, comments in the Financial Times, about how the conflict might provide "another excuse for further delay" in cases where parents are already in dispute over child parental visits.
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