The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a U.S.-based father seeking to return his 13-year-old son brought by the mother to Japan, overturning a lower court ruling against the father's request.The top court made the first decision on cases in which the return of a child has yet to take place despite a finalized Japanese court order to take the child back based on the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.The Supreme Court's First Petty Branch said it sees "clear illegality" in the mother's failure to comply with the order and sent the case back t…READ FULL ARTICLE
