New Hague Convention Ratification Agreement Expected to Make International Child Support Collection Quicker and Less Costly!
This week President Obama signed the instrument of ratification to the 2007 Hague Child Support and Maintenance Convention addressing International Recovery of Child Support. This international child support signing was accomplished in great part due to the extensive work done by US family lawyers, by the Hague Convention on Private International Law, and by many others.
At present the only signatory countries are EU Members States, Norway, Albania, Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Many other countries are actively considering joining, but were waiting for the United States to endorse it.
International Child Support
The ratification of this agreement provides new provisions that, for the first time on an increasing global scale, will create hopefully efficient, timely, and cost effective procedures for the processing of international child support cases. While these types of procedures have been commonplace in the United States, the same is not true globally.… View Full Article → “International Child Support Recovery Ratification Signed By President Obama”