A man and a woman met up in England and decided to live together. So in love they were, but not so enamored of one another that they wanted to make it legal. Who needs a piece of paper when they already know they'll be together forever?
The couple had twins, two darling boys. They were a family now, in their own eyes, and who needs a marriage license and it's just a bother to go to the registry office and it's too much effort to lift the pen to sign the book. They'd be together forever.
They went back to his homeland, to Ireland, the nuclear family. The couple got engaged, with the boys just past a year old. They never did tie the knot officially. Things soured between them, the relationship fizzled, and she packed her bags, took the boys, and went back home to England in January of 2007.
He missed his boys. On 9 March, he went to court and claimed that his twins had been abducted by their mother. She took them and never discussed the matter with him, the father; brought them to England and it's far away.
The courts in Ireland declared that it was wrong for the mother to high tail it to England because that breached the father's rights under the Brussels regulations of the European Union. It was wrong for her to go to England, thereby removing the boys from the jurisdiction of the Irish courts. The fact that the father waited over a month to do anything about custody has no bearing on the case, according to the High Court.
The fight over custody will now begin. The couple will, in a different way, be together forever, battling over two boys. The woman who had seen enough of her partner will never be quit of him, not so long as the boys are minor children. Where she lives will be up to the courts to decide; where her children will reside will be a matter for judicial review.
No need of a piece of paper, she believed in love everlasting. Will the girls never learn?
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