Internacional family mediation and child abduction / Mediación familiar internacional y sustracción de menores

Abstract

The present paper deals with the study of the mediation as an amicable dispute settlement mechanism in the area of international child abduction. Its regulation in European law and Spanish law and the advantages of its implementation are analyzed. The result obtained is that mediation could be a good alternative to court proceedings in order to settle these issues since its advantages outweigh its disadvantages, while it is not a very common practice.

Keywords

• Amicable dispute settlement mechanism
• European law
• Spanish law
• advantages
• mediation
• international child abduction
• court proceedings