Trial wraps up in international custody battle
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A federal trial involving two 13-year-old twin boys at the center of an international child custody dispute has concluded without a decision yet made on the children’s fate.
The trial this week won’t determine who gets custody – only whether a court in Eastern Europe or Sumner County, Tenn., will have jurisdiction.
The boys are American citizens who were born in Texas but have spent the majority of their lives in Hungary.
Their mother, a Romanian national, accuses the father of wrongfully retaining the boys in Tennessee after visiting their paternal grandparents. She has argued that custody should be decided in Hungary. The father is a U.S. citizen who claims the mother consented to the children enrolling in school in the U.S. and are now accustomed to life here.
