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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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Case No. C 07-5535 JF

ORDER RE RE-ALLOCATION OF COSTS UNDER ACCESS ORDER

(JFLC3)

**E-Filed 5/3/10**

NOT FOR CITATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

DESPINA ASVESTA,

 Petitioner,

 v.

GEORGE PETROUTSAS,

 Respondent.

Case Number C 07-5535 JF

ORDER RE RE-ALLOCATION OF 1

COSTS UNDER ACCESS ORDER

The instant motion concerns the parties’ ongoing dispute over the cost of transporting

their child to and from Greece in compliance with this Court’s orders. On January 22, 2008, the

Court issued an order (the “Access Order”) setting a schedule for child access pending an appeal

of the Court’s Order Directing Return of Minor Child to Country of Habitual Residence (“first

Hague Order”). Under the Access Order, Petitioner (“Mother”) was to be responsible “for

transporting the minor child to and from the United States and Greece for the Father’s parenting

time, at the Father’s sole expense, such expenses to solely constitute the reasonable airline fares

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Case No. C 07-5535 JF

ORDER RE RE-ALLOCATION OF COSTS UNDER ACCESS ORDER 

(JFLC3)

and reasonable lodging for the Mother and the minor child.” (First Hague Order 2 (emphasis

added).) 

On September 4, 2009, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the first Hague Order

and remanded the petition to this Court to determine the merits of the petition. On September

21, 2009, Respondent (“Father”) moved to vacate the Access Order and cost award. After

receiving additional evidence from the parties and further oral argument from counsel, the Court

issued an order on April 19, 2010, concluding that the United States is the child’s country of

habitual residence and denying Mother’s Hague petition (“second Hague Order”). At the

conclusion of the second Hague Order, the Court stated that “[t]he Access Order shall remain in

effect for sixty (60) days in order to permit Mother to seek relief in the Santa Cruz Superior

Court, and to permit an orderly transition with respect to [the minor child’s] legal status.” 

(Second Hague Order 12:10-12.) Shortly thereafter, Father requested that the Court re-allocate

the travel costs incurred under the Access Order since the Ninth Circuit’s decision.

Good cause therefor appearing, the Court concludes that the parties should be responsible

for their own travel and lodging expenses under the Access Order. Accordingly, Mother shall

reimburse Father for all expenses incurred by him on her behalf under the Access Order on or

after September 4, 2009. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 5/3/10

 

JEREMY FOGEL

United States District Judge

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