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Summary: Should you find that you and your child are the victims of parental abduction and kidnapping, follow this checklist. The sooner that you complete every item on the checklist the more likely your child is to be found. Having everything ready from the previous lesson's Parental Kidnapping Preparedness Checklist is critical. If you don't have that ready, please review and prepare the Parental Kidnapping Preparedness Checklist.
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Parental Abduction & Kidnapping Emergency Checklist
Should you find that you and your child are the victims of parental abduction and kidnapping, follow this checklist. The sooner that you complete every item on the checklist the more likely your child is to be found. Having everything ready from the previous lesson's Parental Kidnapping Preparedness Checklist is critical. If you don't have that ready, please review and prepare the Parental Kidnapping Preparedness Checklist.
Kidnap Emergency Checklist
If you find that your child is missing:
Call your attorney (or get one if you don't have one) and have them immediately file for an emergency change of custody, giving you temporary custody, based on the fact that your child has been improperly removed by the other parent.
Call the police and file a missing person report.
Have the police department enter the missing parties' name, description, social security numbers and driver's license information with the National Crime Information Center ("NCIC") to be listed in their computer (criminal charges do not need to be filed to take advantage of this).
Call Child Quest International. (1-800-248-8020)
Call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. (1-800-THE LOST)
Call Vanished Children's Alliance Services. (1-800-VANISHED)
Check your local post office regularly to see if the other parent has put in a change of address form, indicating their new address.
Immediately upon determining where your child is, contact an attorney in that area, and have them prepare a complaint seeking a Writ of Habeas Corpus, giving the authorities in that state the right to take possession of your child and bring them to the court.
If your child has been kidnapped abroad do all of the above, plus:
Call the Office of Citizens' Consular Services at 202-736-7000, and request that a "welfare and whereabouts search" be conducted for your child.
If the country to which your child has been taken is signatory to the Hague Convention, notify the State Department and request that they assist you in obtaining an "Order of Return", under the Hague Convention.
The following is a list of countries which are signatory to the Hague Convention:
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Belize
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Burkina Faso
Canada
Chile
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
Ecuador
Finland
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France
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Germany
Greece
Honduras
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Luxembourg
Mauritius
Mexico
Monaco
Netherlands
New Zealand
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Norway
Panama
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
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Remember, time is of the essence here. Have your checklists and documents ready, and while hoping to never have to use them, you'll be glad to have them ready if you do.
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