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This guidance outlines options to consider and who to contact if your child has been taken or kept abroad by their other parent or a relative without your permission.
How to apply to have your child returned if they've been abducted, or arrange contact or enforce a court order in EU, Hague Convention and non-Hague Convention countries
This page provides country-specific guidance for British people if their child or children have been abducted abroad by a parent.
Information on legal issues relating to parental child abduction
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in Russia by the other parent or a relative.
A list of solicitors accredited to deal with cases where a child is taken abroad without a parent's permission.
Information on legal issues relating to parental child abduction.
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in Saudi Arabia by the other parent or a relative.
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in Jordan by the other parent or a relative.
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in Poland by the other parent or a relative.
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in Oman by the other parent or a relative.
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in Kuwait by the other parent or a relative.
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in the north of Cyprus by the other parent or a relative.
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in Japan by the other parent or a relative.
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