Brazilian judge gives custodyto US dad
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April 26, 2010, Monday
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FOR the second time this year, a judge has ordered a Brazilian to relinquish custody of a child to his American father.
In this case, Hilma Aparecida Caldeira, a former member of Brazil's national volleyball team, has been ordered to return her four-year-old son to his American father, US Embassy spokeswoman Orna Blum said on Saturday.
In Brazil, the boy's 43-year-old father, Kelvin Birotte, said the court ruled his son must be returned to him. Deadline for him to receive his son is Thursday. He said he had been unable to contact his estranged wife since arriving in Rio de Janeiro, but understood she filed an appeal to the custody order. Caldeira could not be reached for comment.
"I'm going to be here until something happens, good or bad," said Birotte.
Birotte said Caldeira brought their son to Brazil to visit relatives in 2006 and stayed on and filed for divorce and custody of the child.
He last saw his son, also named Kelvin, at a court hearing in 2007.
In a separate case, in December a Brazilian Supreme Court judge backed a federal court's ruling ordering Brazilian relatives to return 9-year-old Sean Goldman to his American father, David Goldman. The case dragged on for five years.
The boy's mother, Bruna Bianchi, took Sean to her native Brazil in 2004. She later divorced Goldman and remarried, prompting Goldman to initiate legal efforts to get his son back. Bianchi died in 2008 in childbirth, but Sean's Brazilian stepfather and grandmother continued to fight for custody in Brazil.
Uncertain even in what city his wife and son might be, Birotte appealed for her to call by posting a phone number on his Facebook page.
In this case, Hilma Aparecida Caldeira, a former member of Brazil's national volleyball team, has been ordered to return her four-year-old son to his American father, US Embassy spokeswoman Orna Blum said on Saturday.
In Brazil, the boy's 43-year-old father, Kelvin Birotte, said the court ruled his son must be returned to him. Deadline for him to receive his son is Thursday. He said he had been unable to contact his estranged wife since arriving in Rio de Janeiro, but understood she filed an appeal to the custody order. Caldeira could not be reached for comment.
"I'm going to be here until something happens, good or bad," said Birotte.
Birotte said Caldeira brought their son to Brazil to visit relatives in 2006 and stayed on and filed for divorce and custody of the child.
He last saw his son, also named Kelvin, at a court hearing in 2007.
In a separate case, in December a Brazilian Supreme Court judge backed a federal court's ruling ordering Brazilian relatives to return 9-year-old Sean Goldman to his American father, David Goldman. The case dragged on for five years.
The boy's mother, Bruna Bianchi, took Sean to her native Brazil in 2004. She later divorced Goldman and remarried, prompting Goldman to initiate legal efforts to get his son back. Bianchi died in 2008 in childbirth, but Sean's Brazilian stepfather and grandmother continued to fight for custody in Brazil.
Uncertain even in what city his wife and son might be, Birotte appealed for her to call by posting a phone number on his Facebook page.
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