In this case the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the child custody arrangement of the lower court, which had given custody to the mother and visitation rights to the father. The Court of Appeals, in affirming this decision, noted that the father was also a citizen of Egypt, a country not party to the relevant Hague Convention on child custody and abduction, making it likely impossible or very difficult for the mother to see the child, in the event custody is granted to the father, who could then abduct the child to Egypt. The Court, apart from this, did not engage in substantive Egyptian law, nor in any Islamic law.