The custody battle over nine years old boy, Sean, will be over as soon as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil gives the final verdict. The boy is the son of a U.S. citizen who married a Brazilian woman. The Brazilian woman took the child with her to Brazil and died subsequently. According to a U.S. embassy official, the court will decide the case on Tuesday.
The father of the child, David Goldman, was entangled in the litigation against her Brazilian mother’s family for the custody of his son, Sean. The lower court upheld the decision in favor of father keeping in view the death of boy’s mother and maintained the order to let the boy’s father take his custody and let him take his son with him to New Jersey. When Goldman arrived in Rio, Brazil to meet his son, the Supreme Court issued a stay and prevented the father from meeting the child and ordered to keep the custody of the child with his maternal relatives for the time being until the supreme court gives its final decision. Now the decision of the Supreme Court is expected on Tuesday.
The litigation between the couple started in 2004 when Goldman’s wife, Bruna Bianchi, went to Brazil for two weeks with her son and then never came back home. Rather she married another man without getting divorce from his husband. She then died during delivering the baby from his new husband. Goldman has the plea that he is the only parent left, so he should be given the custody. The defending party and the maternal relatives of the child are of the view that doing so will jeopardize his life on leaving his home where he lived for five years. But the case seems to be strong enough in father’s favor.
David Goldman
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