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And once again, I urge you to ignore the legal pundits because the significance of his ruling is as intriguing as it is simple: This judge is acutely aware that once Birkhead returns to America with his daughter, there will be no legal way for him to compel them to return to the The Bahamas for further proceedings. Never mind that by any judicial criteria such an order would constitute an overzealous attempt to meddle in the affairs of this family that borders on fetishistic.
That said, Birkhead would be well-advised to have his local counsel prevail upon the judge to appreciate that — although he has no objection to returning – his parental good sense tells him that it is neither necessary nor in the best interest of his daughter to return to the The Bahamas to resolve any outstanding issues with her Grandma.
Thanks for the articles!
Hall’s is my favorite. With his use of the term “maternally-overweening”, some may long for the endearing term “estranged”.
http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000141/014176.htm
Thanks for the link. Missed all the news and any pictures of the homecomming yesterday. So happy for the entire Birkhead family, it was a great day.
from your Cayman newspaper link...two more observations....
“And, moreover, that — to the extent such issues have to be litigated at all – a US court would be a more appropriate forum given the citizenship and permanent residency of all of the parties now involved. And, trust me, that would be that!”
Hopefully then, they won’t renig on Daniel’s inquest. They didn’t want to hold one in the first place and with the rest of this potentially being handled in the states, I wonder if they would just say forget it.
Also, considering again, the Louisville reporter wanting to squelch all the rumors of HKS being here with LB...the Cayman article doesn’t even speculate that he’s in Louisville. Hummm, but neither does it say that the Bahamas is stuck with HKS for a few more days either and it seems they would be in a postion to know if he had stayed or gone. I guess what I’m getting at is my feeling that the Louisville reporter bent over backwards to make her point to clarify, when no one else seems to care at all, but us ;)