Child custody and visitation disputes are often a major concern of North Carolina parents when they go through a divorce. While most of these issues are resolved, some parents take the extreme action of taken the child to another country in violation of a court order. According to the U.S. State Department, more than 8,000 children were internationally abducted by a parent between 2008 and 2013. Some of these cases have received significant publicity and have ended up in U.S. courts, while many others are still being attempted to be resolved
