ASVESTA v. PETROUTSAS

No. 08-15365.

580 F.3d 1000 (2009)

Despina ASVESTA, Petitioner-Appellee, v. George PETROUTSAS, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted August 28, 2009.

Filed September 4, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carmenella Athena Roussos, Elk Grove, CA, for the respondent-appellant.

Renee C. Day, Hoover & Bechtel, LLP, San Jose, CA; Stephen J. Cullen and Kelly A. Powers, Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Towson, MD, for the petitioner-appellee.

Before: PROCTER HUG, JR., RICHARD A. PAEZ, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.


PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

For four years, the minor child ("the child") of George Petroutsas, a dual citizen of Greece and the United States, and Despina Asvesta, a Greek citizen, has been situated squarely at the center of his parents' tumultuous separation and divorce, an event that has involved the courts of both the United States and Greece. Twice the child has been spirited from continent to continent—first by the mother, who kept the child in Greece, away...

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