When child custody issues drag on for a long time, at some point they are resolved not because the parties come to an agreement, but simply because the process has run its course. This is the case with a contentious battle between two parents that has spanned several years and three continents, but is now over because the boy at the center of the fight is too old.
The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court but also involved Chilean courts. In the case, an American mother took her son from Chile to the United States without the permission of her estranged husband, who is British. Courts in Chile had ruled that neither parent was allowed to take the child out of the country without permission from the other.
