Mane Swett‘s son traveled in December 2022 to spend the holidays with his father, but never returned to Chile, so he went to court to seek Santiago’s return home.
Mane Swett does not give in and detailed the new legal actions to regain custody of his 12-year-old son, after the United States Justice decided that the minor live with his father, the writer John Bowe.
Mane Swett’s son traveled in December 2022 to spend the holidays with his father, but never returned to Chile, so he went to court to seek Santiago’s return home.
However, in May of last year, the New York court ruled in favor of John Bowe, after the boy’s statement, who stated that he wanted to live in the United States, since in our country he felt “depressed and sad.”
Despite this ruling, Mane Swett appealed the decision and, according to LUN, in this judicial action they point to the influence that Bowe had in ensuring that Santiago does not return to Chile.
Richard Min, the actress’s lawyer, assured that “It is difficult to separate what the child expressed from the undue influence that the father exerted on him.”
“The judge focused on a period of four to six months of unhappiness in Chile Is that a sufficient basis for a child to object or not want to return home, especially when the father fanned those flames and influenced the child to continue having negative feelings about Chile and/or his mother,” he explained.
Swett’s lawyer stressed that these months are “a snapshot of the unhappiness that the father fueled” and that school or the lack of friends cannot be appealed to as objections and that they enter “the waters of custody.”