The bill for Japan to join the treaty that handles cross-border child custody disputes has cleared the Diet.
The Japan Times reports that Japan is now certain of ratifying the pact by the end of the financial year in March 2014, once all the domestic issues are concluded.
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980) provides the procedures and rules allowing for the quick return of children under 16, taken or kept by one parent following the break down of an international marriage, to the country of their habitual residence if the other parent so requests.
Thailand is a signatory to the Hague Treaty and enforcement is through the Thailand Attorney General Office. The Hague Convention has been implemented under Thailand Child Abduction Law to bring children back home. However, the position where another state asks Thailand to implement is less clear: Thailand’s legal system involves a two-tiered process for new laws, and the statutes of the Hague Treaty have not yet gone through the second process to become a part of Thailand’s internal legal system.
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