Asvesta

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DESPINA ASVESTA,  No. 08-15365 Petitioner-Appellee, v.  D.C. No. 5:07-cv-05535-JF

GEORGE PETROUTSAS,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Jeremy D. Fogel, District Judge, Presiding

Argued Submitted July 14, 2008 Submitted August 28, 2009 San Francisco, California

Filed September 4, 2009

Before: Procter Hug, Jr., Richard A. Paez, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Paez

12361 12364 ASVESTA v. PETROUTSAS

COUNSEL

Carmenella Athena Roussos, Elk Grove, California, for the respondent-appellant. ASVESTA v. PETROUTSAS 12365 Renee C. Day, Hoover & Bechtel, LLP, San Jose, California; Stephen J. Cullen and Kelly A. Powers, Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Towson, Maryland, for the petitioner-appellee.

OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

For four years, the minor child (“the child”) of George Petroutsas, a dual citizen of Greece and the United States, and Despina Asvesta, a Greek citizen, has been situated squarely at the center of his parents’…