Case Update (2020): Noergaard v. Noergaard; Moot appeal of a Hague Abduction Return Order after child turns age 16
On October 29, 2020, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division 3, addressed, in an unpublished opinion, the 2nd appeal noted by Tammy Noergaard to the order returning her eldest daughter, Mia, to Denmark. In quick summary, Tammy had 2 daughters with Christian Noergaard. They were born in California, but a few years later, the family re-settled in Denmark. The parents separated, and they went through years of litigation and appeals in Denmark over the custody of their two children, eventually resulting in Christian securing full custody of both daughters in October 2011, affirmed on appeal in December 2012. In May 2013, Tammy abducted the oldest child to California. In January 2014, Christian located Mia, filed a Hague Abduction return petition, and Mia was ordered returned to him. Tammy appealed (apparently without obtaining a stay of the return order), and succeeded. Her case was reversed and remanded for a new trial because of...