Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 11/19/2015

Subject: The Court affirmed that Article 23(a) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility must be interpreted as meaning that, in the absence of a manifest breach, having regard to the best interests of the child, of a rule of law regarded as essential in the legal order of a Member State or of a right recognised as being fundamental within that legal order, that provision does not allow a court of that Member State which considers that it has jurisdiction to rule on the custody of a child to refuse to recognise a judgment of a court of another Member State which has ruled on the custody of that child

Parties: P

Classification: Equality - Art. 24 Children’s rights

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