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Shauna Hadden and her daughter Ava are stuck in Brazil after the passports were confiscated by the Brazilian government. She has sole custody of her daughter in a U.S. court order that the father agreed to. He was deported from Brazil because he was in the U.S. illegally.
After several years, the mom agreed to bring Ava down to Brazil to get to know her father, her family and her Brazilian heritaqe. But then things went wrong. She claimed that once there, a friend warned her that the father was going to try to take custody and so she refused to go to the father's home and visited friends in another city. It was then that the father went to the Brazilian courts and tried to get custody and had their passports seized. They have been trapped there for some time:
What do you all think? My thoughts will be in another post below, but I want to hear what everyone else has to say.
After several years, the mom agreed to bring Ava down to Brazil to get to know her father, her family and her Brazilian heritaqe. But then things went wrong. She claimed that once there, a friend warned her that the father was going to try to take custody and so she refused to go to the father's home and visited friends in another city. It was then that the father went to the Brazilian courts and tried to get custody and had their passports seized. They have been trapped there for some time:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-mothe...y-dispute-home/story?id=19579851#.Udhzhm124f4According to Hadden, Shauna and Donizete Machado have been divorced since 2009. "She has full custody of Ava. He lives in Brazil. Shauna planned a trip on May 21 where she would take Ava to visit her father and extended family in Brazil. We thought it was a great opportunity for Ava to learn about her heritage."
But when they got to Brazil, "Shauna got a call from a man who lived in Machado's town telling her not to come," Hadden said. "Her ex-husband was planning to take Ava from her."
So instead of traveling to see Machado, Shauna Hadden chose to go north and stay with friends.
What do you all think? My thoughts will be in another post below, but I want to hear what everyone else has to say.