While the list of relevant factors is not a closed one, they must relate to the situation immediately prior to the alleged date of wrongful removal or retention. That is what the Hague Convention directs. To do otherwise would be an error in principle (see: Ellis v. Wentzell-Ellis, supra at paras. 31-33).
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