A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to impose a penalty on removing children from the United States in order to avoid the effects of a lawful custody order.

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Provides that whoever takes an unmarried child, if that child is less than eighteen years of age, and is a citizen of the United States or a lawfully resident alien, out of the territorial jurisdiction of the United States with the intent to avoid the effects of or evade a lawful custody order of any court respecting that child, shall be fined not more than $1,000.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 11 June 1974

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