Brazil top judge to rule on U.S. custody case (Ruling Delayed)

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Source: Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Brazilian Supreme Court's top judge delayed until Tuesday a ruling on whether a 9-year-old boy at the center of an international custody battle will be reunited with his father and return to the United States.

A ruling in the case of Sean Goldman, whose father David Goldman is an American and whose mother Bruna Bianchi was a Brazilian who died last year, had been expected on Monday. But a spokesman for Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes told Reuters late on Monday the ruling would be announced the following day.

The Goldman case has reached the highest levels of both governments and threatened to mar Brazil-U.S. relations.

Bianchi took Sean from the United States to her native Brazil in 2004, then divorced Goldman and stayed with the boy in the South American country, in what the Goldman and the U.S. government call a clear case of international child abduction.

Since Bianchi's death, her family and second husband have fought to keep Sean in Brazil, saying he has settled in the country and does not want to go back the United States.

Last Thursday another Supreme Court judge blocked a decision by a federal court earlier in the week ordering the return of the boy to U.S. authorities within 48 hours.

The father, who has only seen Sean in brief visits to Brazil since 2004, and Brazil's attorney general appealed that ruling, asking for Sean to be handed over immediately....



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BF4YJ20091221

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Why am I getting that usual sinking feeling.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. I thought he was going to have to wait till February?

Now he is getting a ruling tomorrow? Sounds like good news to me.

[WriteDown]

3. Not when you consider this:

"Last Thursday another Supreme Court judge blocked a decision by a federal court earlier in the week ordering the return of the boy to U.S. authorities within 48 hours."

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. And after that ruling, they said the SC would not be in session until February

That's why this other ruling surprises me.

[WriteDown]

5. I think I'm just a little more cynical than you. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. I honestly don't have an informed opinion here

I just think the biological parent should have custody of his kid.

As far as the court battle, I haven't followed it that closely. So my opinion is not that informed.

[bobburgster]

2. I saw him on the news last week

And he was all set to get the boy on Friday. At the time, he said he would not rest easy until the two of them were back in the US. Of course he was right.

The poor guy. I sure hope he doesn't have to come home empty handed - again.