Factores para Evaluar el Riesgo de Sustracción de Menores

Explicación Simple

Cuando un juez tiene que decidir si un niño puede ser llevado lejos, mira varias cosas. Por ejemplo, si uno de los padres ha intentado llevarse al niño antes o si ha dicho que lo hará.

Es como cuando un maestro revisa si un estudiante puede salir solo al recreo. Si el estudiante ha salido sin permiso antes, el maestro se pone alerta.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Laura y Miguel están en medio de un divorcio. Laura se ha mudado de su casa, ha vendido su auto y ha pedido el pasaporte de su hijo. Miguel va al juez y le dice que está preocupado porque cree que Laura podría intentar llevarse al niño a otro país.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

23 Pa.C.S. 5207 - Factors To Determine Risk Of Abduction (a) Evidence supporting risk.--In determining whether there is a credible risk of abduction of a child, the court shall consider any evidence that the petitioner or respondent: (1) has previously abducted or attempted to abduct the child; (2) has threatened to abduct the child; (3) has recently engaged in activities that may indicate a planned abduction, including: (i) abandoning employment; (ii) selling a primary residence; (iii) terminating a lease; (iv) closing bank or other financial management accounts, liquidating assets, hiding or destroying financial documents or conducting any unusual financial activities; (v) applying for a passport or visa or obtaining travel documents for the respondent, a family member or the child; or (vi) seeking to obtain the child's birth certificate or school or medical records; (4) has engaged in domestic violence, stalking or child abuse or neglect; (5) has refused to follow a child custody determination; (6) lacks strong familial, financial, emotional or cultural ties to this Commonwealth or the United States; (7) has strong familial, financial, emotional or cultural ties to another state or country; (8) is likely to take the child to a country that: (i) is not a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and does not provide for the extradition of an abducting parent or for the return of an abducted child; (ii) is a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction but: (A) the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction is not in force between the United States and that country; (B) according to the most recent compliance report issued by the United States Department of Stat