A 14-year-old Hungarian girl whose father petitioned for her return to Hungary after she was brought to the United States two years ago by her mother can stay in the United States even though she and her mother are undocumented, a federal judge has ruled.
The father, Gyula Janos Jakubik, in June filed a repatriation petition for the girl's return pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, which allows a parent alleging a breach of their custody rights to attempt to repatriate the child to the state of their "habitual residence."
