MUSSALLAM v. MUSSALLAM

No. 702PA86.

364 S.E.2d 364 (1988)

321 N.C. 504

Hussein Sayyed MUSSALLAM (Mustafa) v. Eeva Hannelle MUSSALLAM.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 3, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas, Ravenel, Hardy, Crihfield & Lung by John W. Hardy, Greensboro, for appellant Guilford County Bd. of Educ.

Hatfield & Hatfield by John B. Hatfield, Jr., Greensboro, for surety-appellees Doris H. Harshaw and Jo Wilkins.

Manlin M. Chee and Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James & Harkavy by John R. Kernodle, Jr., Greensboro, for defendant-appellee.


MEYER, Justice.

In 1981 the plaintiff-husband, Hussein Sayyed Mussallam, a Kuwaiti, obtained a divorce from his Finnish wife, the defendant Eeva Hannelle Mussallam, in Kuwait, but did not then seek custody of the child of the marriage. About six months later, the husband filed an action in Finland, where the wife and minor child were then living, seeking custody of the child. The Finnish court granted custody to the wife. In 1985 the wife brought the child to Greensboro...

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