SEAN GOLDMAN - 2004 Int'l Abduction Story - REUNITED WITH HIS DAD 12/24/09

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http://www.kelowna.com/2010/01/11/foundation-to-lend-clout-in-custody-fight-child-abduction-canadian-seeks-to-get-son-6-out-of-brazil/
Foundation to lend clout in custody fight; Child Abduction; Canadian seeks to get son, 6, out of Brazil

Monday, January 11th, 2010 | 3:10 am

Canwest News Service

The U.S. foundation that helped an American dad win custody of a son living in Brazil is making a Canadian abduction case its number one priority.

The Bring Sean Home Foundation leveraged legal and political contacts to bring a nine-year-old boy back to the United States following a custody battle between his New Jersey-based father and Brazilian stepfather.

Having scored one victory, the foundation plans to use its resources to help Francois Larivee repatriate his six-year-old son Lucas, illegally taken from Montreal to Brazil in 2004 by the boy's mother. Although Mr. Larivee has won two court decisions in Brazil and has followed The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction to the letter of the law, his case is stuck in a post-appeal process. Back in October 2007, "we were told it was a priority case, and a decision rendered quickly, but here we are still waiting," he said.

Mr. Larivee said his legal battle has "been a nightmare," and the only access he has to his son these days is bimonthly phone calls. Mr. Larivee has learned Portuguese so that he can talk with his son. But he is now worried that following the successful return of Sean Goldman to the United States, his ex-partner will cut off communication.

Watching David Goldman reunite with his son Sean has been bittersweet for Mr. Larivee. The same court that set aside the stay order preventing Mr. Goldman from taking his son home is the same court that has dragged out his own case.

"The two cases were so similar … and in some ways [Mr. Larivee's] case is more egregious," said Mark DeAngelis, co-founder of the Bring Sean Home Foundation.
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N.J. father David Goldman pens memoir about 5-year international custody battle for son

Published: Monday, December 20, 2010, 9:26 AM     Updated: Monday, December 20, 2010, 9:28 AM
 By The Associated Press
 Eraldo Peres/The Associated ss

Tinton Falls resident David Goldman, right, is writing a book about his five-year quest to regain custody of his son from the boy's Brazilian stepfather and grandmother.

NEW YORK — A New Jersey man whose 5-year custody battle for his son became international news has a book coming out next year.

David Goldman's "A Father's Love" will be released in May by Viking, the publisher announced today.

In 2004, Goldman was married and living in Tinton Falls when his wife Bruna Bianchi flew to Brazil with their 4-year-old son, Sean, for what was supposed to be a vacation. She announced she was staying there with Sean, later divorced Goldman and remarried.

Goldman spent years in American and Brazilian courts before he finally brought Sean home in 2009. Bianchi died in 2008 in childbirth, but Sean's Brazilian stepfather and grandmother continued to fight for custody in Brazil.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/david_goldman_pens_memoir_abou.html