Unlike a statute of limitations prohibiting a parent from filing a return petition after a year has expired, the “now settled” defense under Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction merely permits courts to consider the interests of a child who has been in a new environment for more than a year before ordering that child to be returned to her country of habitual residency. As such, the one-year period associated with the “now settled” defense under Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction was not subject to equitable tolling.
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