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Meredith v. Meredith, 759 F. Supp. 1432 (D. Ariz. 1991)

In Meredith v. Meredith, 759 F. Supp. 1432 (D. Ariz. 1991), the Father, an Arizona resident, was not ordered to return his daughter to her mother under where the father, who had legal custody, took the daughter from France, where the mother was hiding her after requesting that her daughter visit her parents there. The daughter was not a "habitual resident" of France, and thus the protections of Hague Convention are not triggered. To equate the temporary removal and subsequent sequestration of the child to habitual residence in France, would be to reward the mother for her ability to conceal the child. Concealment does not cause the place of concealment to become the place of habitual residence.