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European Council agrees more effective rules to resolve cross-border parental responsibility issues

Date:14 DEC 2018

The European Council has agreed revisions of the Brussels IIa regulation which sets out rules on jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, as well as on intra-EU child abduction.

The Council aims at improving the current legal EU rules that protect children in the context of cross-border parental responsibility disputes related to custody, access rights and child abduction.

Read the full press release HERE