decide to separate the child from the parents (the father or the mother)... 3.

After having obtained the opinion of the child welfare committee and subsequently, in accordance with the applicant's request, the opinion of the Child Welfare Council of Iceland, the Ministry of Justice

The wording “apparent need of child welfare measures” referred to section 12, which set a clearly lower threshold for child welfare measures than the threshold set in section 16 for taking a child into

of the child; c) the grounds on which the applicant's claim for return of the child is based; d) all available information relating to the whereabouts of the child and the identity of the person with

with the child and his parent or by a decision of the Sheriff Court.

of forty-eight months, starting with the birth of each child, if the period of child-raising was spent in Austria.

maintenance; refuses to collect the child from the maternity hospital or from any other medical, educational, social or similar institution; abuses his or her parental authority; mistreats the child by

Mr Fretté's application to adopt a child is motivated by a desire to provide a child with affection and a proper upbringing.

Centre once, asking that the child be returned to her because she had ensured “physical conditions for the child” as regards the house.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child 37.

B.F. left the child with the applicant and disappeared for over a month.

But the need to free the child for adoption is different from the need for the child to be adopted.

She did not see the child over Christmas.

  In September 2003 she gave birth to a child out of wedlock.

The applicants requested artificial insemination facilities to enable them to have a child together, arguing that it would not otherwise be possible, given the husband’s earliest release date (2009) and

According to the request, the conditions at home endangered the welfare of the child.

The judgment to return the child has remained unenforced. 3.

At that time the child was cared for by the paternal grandparents.

    A parent residing separately from a child is entitled to maintain contact with the child and to participate in his upbringing and education.