Case No. United States District Court, D. Maryland , Southern Division. Signed November 22, James Steven Maxwell , Joel R.
The Court held a two-day evidentiary hearing on November 6 and 7, and an additional hearing for legal argument on November 13, After carefully considering the evidence presented at the hearings and the parties ' arguments, the Court will grant the Petition.
Mindful that " [n] either ICARA nor the Hague Convention specifically dictate how courts are to proceed when considering a petition under the [Convention] ," Menechem v. Frydman-Menachem , F. Zajaczkowska , F. They commenced a relationship that summer and began cohabitating in August of that year.
Both parties had significant connections to Mali: Hart had spent substantial portions of his childhood there and had maintained friends and relationships into adulthood, while Anderson's father was living in Mali at the time the parties met, and her mother was born and raised in the northern part of the country and has a large family there.
Anderson has a Bachelor's degree in history and a Master's degree in teaching social studies and history, both from Virginia Commonwealth University , while Hart completed some university coursework but has not obtained a degree. When the parties met, Anderson had just moved to Mali from Virginia and begun teaching preschool at the American International School of Bamako, a position she held until the fall of when she became the school's administrative assistant.
