Quite possibly - if, for example, after being served with a professional drafted plea, the defending parent realizes , on receiving advice ,that his/her legal position is difficult, then he/she may back down quickly, perhaps with the added intention of reducing possible "damage" in legal proceedings abroad in the future.
Our practice filed Hague Convention proceedings for a father whose children had not been returned from a vacation in Israel in August 2014, and just 8 days later , the family court authorized a joint notice signed by both parties' counsel, according to which the mother and children would return home to the States , on a specific date, and the file would be closed, after the minors' safe return to the U.S.A , without a finding as to whether there had been an abduction or not.( File No. 13200-08-12).