NIWAP filed an Amicus Brief in a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals case in which a Venezuelan mother who had been granted asylum in the United States as a victim of domestic violence was ordered by the District Court in a Hague Convention case to return her children who had also been granted asylum in the U.S. to their father in Venezuela. This appeal highlighted the error of law that the District Court made in failing to consider the fact that the mother and children had been deemed credible by DHS and granted asylum. The brief provided social science data demonstrated how the District Court had also failed to consider the impact of trauma on testimony of domestic violence victims. NIWAP was represented by DLA Piper and Crowell and Moring represented the victim mother in this case (April 19, 2022).
Asylum, Case law, Child welfare, abuse and neglect, Custody, Domestic Violence & Dynamics, Parental Rights, Trauma Informed Assistance