Intimate partner violence should have prevented a judge from awarding a man more than $283,000 in fees and costs in an international child custody dispute, a federal appeals court said Friday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the award under The International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA) to petitioner Abdullah Naghash Souratgar, who had prevailed in a custody action against Lee Fair Jen over their son.
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