GROWING IPORTANCE OF FAMILY LAW IN COMMUNITY LEGISLATION
GROWING IPORTANCE OF FAMILY LAW IN COMMUNITY LEGISLATION

Summary/Abstract: The growing mobility of citizens within the European Union has led to an increasing number of international couples, i.e. spouses of different nationalities, spouses who live in different Member States or who live in a Member State in which one or both of them are not nationals. In view of the high number of the divorces1 within the European Union, a great number of citizens face the problems concerning applicable legislation, jurisdictional matters and child custody each year. Please note that Community rules on this matters apply only to the so-called cross-border cases. In the ―new‖ EU the number of divorces has almost quadrupled since 1960.2 In 2002 there were 863 000 divorces across the Member States of EU.

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