In re Marriage of Lasich

In In re Marriage of Lasich (2002) 99 Cal.App.4th 702, a mother successfully petitioned to move with her children from Sacramento to Spain. (Lasich, supra, 99 Cal.App.4th at pp. 704-705, 710.) The trial court's custody order provided the father with eight weeks of "parenting time" every summer, one week at Christmas, one week at spring break, and up to two weeks in Spain. (Id. at p. 711.) The order also conditioned the relocation on the mother's registration of the custody order under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, October 25, 1980, T.I.A.S. No. 11670 (Convention) and the mother's annual acknowledgement in the Spanish courts that the children remained habitual residents of California. The mother also conceded that California retained exclusive jurisdiction to make any custody order and was required to post a $ 100,000 bond, which would be forfeitable if she sought to modify the order in the courts of any other country. (Lasich, at pp. 712-713.) On appeal, the reviewing court rejected the father's argument that the trial court failed to comply with the guidelines of In re Marriage of Condon (1998). With respect to enforceability of jurisdiction, the court concluded that "the court ... heeded Condon by imposing rigorous jurisdictional terms to ensure its orders will be enforceable in Spain." (Lasich, at pp. 718-719 & fn. 9.) No abuse of discretion was shown. (Id. at p. 720.)