Boy To Be Reunited With Dad Thursday

The Brazilian family of a boy at the center of a custody battle will not appeal a ruling to hand him over to his American father.

A federal court in Brazil gave the Brazilian family until 6 a.m. on Thurday to turn him over.

David Goldman won a big legal victory late Tuesday when Brazil's chief justice upheld a lower court's ruling that ordered his son, Sean, returned to him. The boy has lived in Brazil since Goldman's ex-wife took him to her native country in 2004. Last year she died in childbirth.

Goldman's lawyers were finalizing legal documents Wednesday morning and were fully expecting that the Brazilian family would turn over Sean as ordered, said U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Orna Blum, who is accompanying Goldman in Rio.

Goldman lives in New Jersey.