Taking your child through divorce is hard enough, don’t add kidnapping to the list

It’s hard when you are going through a divorce and you can only see your children at weekends or set times, and it has probably gone through your head that you could run away with them and start a new life somewhere else? Divorce Lawyer Lawrence Leven has heard many a time an angry parent threatening to flee with their child who’s in the middle of a custody battle, he answers point blankly don’t even think about it.

Kidnapping has been a hot subject this week after the Boston abduction of a 7-year-old British girl, as the FBI and police search for Reigh Storrow boss and her wealthy father, Clark Rockefeller.

Rockefeller and his ex wife Sandra Boss had been fighting in court for custody of their daughter; Rockefeller lost joint custody to his ex wife. He has just ended his first supervised visit with Regh on Sunday and then flat with her to New York.

Rockefeller recently brought a yacht and it’s believed that he is trying to escape on it to Bermuda, investigators say it looks like the abduction was carefully planned out.

Top divorce lawyers have said that abductions are very rare, and generally if they do happen it’s in international custody cases, where there is religion or the parents are from different nationalities.

Another high powered divorce lawyer said that most of the time it never reaches more than a verbal threat by an angry parent, but even then it’s probably one in a thousand that actually ever take the extreme steps to flee with the child.

If you take your child when you do not have the authority to do so, then that is kidnapping in the eyes of the law, and thats that.

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Source: Dailynewstribune

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