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Central Authority for Québec
The left-behind parents or their lawyers may report a wrongful removal or retention at the following address:
Central Authority for Québec
c/o France Rémillard
Direction des services professionnels
Entraide internationale
Ministère de la Justice
1200, route de l'Église, 2e étage
Québec (Québec) G1V 4M1
Telephone : 418 644-7153
Fax: 418 528-9716
E-mail: enlevement.enfant@justice.gouv.qc.ca
One of the main facets of the Central Authority’s mandate is to assist and advise the parent of a child wrongfully removed or retained. In order to do so, it forwards the applications for the return of the child to the Central Authorities of the designated States. With their help, it sees to discovering the whereabouts of an abducted child, to the adoption of provisional measures, to the negotiation of an amicable resolution of the issues between the parties involved and if necessary, it sees to the institution of judicial proceedings to obtain the forced return of a child.
The removal of a child is considered wrongful within the meaning of the Act respecting the civil aspects of international and interprovincial child abduction where it is in breach of rights of custody attributed under the law of the State in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the removal (in Québec: articles 599 and 600 of the Civil Code of Québec), by reason of a judgment or an agreement between the parties.
The retention of a child is considered wrongful within the meaning of the Act respecting the civil aspects of international and interprovincial child abduction where a child is retained by the non-custodial parent in a State other than that of the child’s habitual residence in breach of rights of custody of the State, by reason of a judgment or an agreement between the parties.
The removal or the retention of a child is also wrongful if it occurs when proceedings for determining or modifying the rights of custody have been instituted before the removal or retention and that it might prevent the execution of the decision to be rendered.
Please note that the interprovincial component of the Act is not in force.
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