Michele H.P. Xamplas v. Peter Xamplas

Summary

The court held that it could review the interlocutory order denying Peter Xamplas's petition for return of the child under the collateral-order exception to the final judgment rule. On the merits, it affirmed the findings that the child was wrongfully retained in January 2023, that Peter did not commence proceedings until filing in a Maine court more than one year later, and that the child was well settled in Maine. The court also upheld the trial court's discretionary decision not to return the child to Greece.