Prevention
Stronger and faster safeguards connecting court restrictions, passport processes, travel-risk indicators, and appropriate border or agency notice.
Policy initiative
Katia’s Law
A developing policy and legislative initiative focused on prevention, agency coordination, emergency assistance, accountability, and gaps affecting international parental child abduction and family separation.
Status: Katia’s Law is a policy proposal under research and development. It is not enacted law, an official government program, or a guarantee of legislative action.
Problem
Families often discover the gaps only after a child is gone.
Custody restrictions, passport safeguards, court orders, border systems, law-enforcement response, international coordination, legal access, translation, travel, and emergency funding can fail to operate as one protective system.
Katia’s Law examines how preventable gaps can be closed before an international removal or wrongful retention becomes a prolonged separation.
Coordination
Clear responsibility, rapid information flow, and documented handoffs among courts, agencies, law enforcement, and family-support systems.
Practical access
Affordable emergency legal, translation, filing, travel, research, and navigation support for families who cannot absorb the cost alone.
Current work
- consolidating historical and current proposals;
- reviewing applicable state and federal frameworks;
- comparing related laws and prevention programs;
- identifying policy gaps and evidence needs;
- seeking qualified legislative, legal, agency, and family-support review;
- building a consistent public explanation.
Relationship to Project KATIA
Katia’s Law addresses systemic prevention and policy. Project KATIA addresses the broader practical needs of separated children, families, and important adults. They reinforce one another and receive equal strategic attention.