tug-of-love

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tug-of-love

n
a conflict over custody of a child between divorced parents or between natural parents and foster or adoptive parents
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tug-of-love

[ˌtʌgəvˈlʌv] N → litigio m entre padres por la custodia de los hijos (después de un divorcio etc)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tug-of-love

[ˌtʌgəvˈlʌv] n (Brit) (fam) → contesa per la custodia dei figli
tug-of-love children bambini coinvolti nella contesa per la custodia
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A BRITISH mum was reunited with her four-yearold daughter caught in a tug-of-love row as Canada ditched an extradition bid.
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But it is on Love Island where he has become the centre of the nation's attention, becoming part of an emotional tug-of-love battle.
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THESE two adorable snow leopards are getting used to their new home at a Scots zoo after a bizarre animal tug-of-love.
RESCUED Majestic snow leopards Nela and Aruna, smuggled into zoo & sold to rich Russians as pets, get new home in Scotland
Tug-of-love mum Janice Dunn has suffered another blow in her battle to take her son back to Scotland.
COURT BLOW FOR TUG-OF-LOVE MUM
2000: US federal agents seize six-year-old "tug-of-love boy" Elian Gonzalez in a early morning raid on his relatives' home.
EVENTS BORN DIED; ON THIS DAY
MUM who sparked a trans-Atlantic tug-of-love by spiritAtlantic tug-of-love by spiritAAA-ing her daughter to the US has insisted the schoolgirl does NOT want to come home.
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We have concerns that is the case here." Afsana could be forced to fly home without her son - a devastating end to her bitter tug-of-love legal battle.
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A HIGH Court tug-of-love dispute between a teacher and a gas engineer has been adjourned.
Tug-of-love case adjourned; BRIEFLY
A five-year-old British girl who went missing with her mother in a tug-of-love dispute has been found safe and well in Russia.
Tug-of-love girl found with mum in Russia
THE former partner of a teacher missing with her five-year-old daughter following a family court tug-of-love dispute yesterday urged her to "come to her senses".
COME TO YOUR SENSES! Father in appeal to tug-of-love mum on run with his daughter
Corrie following EastEnders down the tug-of-love cul-de-sac.
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THIS refers to 'Courts powerless in tug-of-love row' (GDN, July 19).
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