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The long farewell: leaving the EU (Pt 4)

20 October 2017 / Eleanor Moodey
Issue: 7766 / Categories: Features , Brexit
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Eleanor Moodey reflects on the status & standing of international families post-Brexit

  • Rights lost or gained: Hague to the fore.

The Hague Conventions provide important guidance for international family matters. These will need to be given due consideration prior to the exit date from the EU, to ensure that the UK maintains individuals rights and obligations under these areas of law. The UK is itself party to some of the Hague Conventions relevant to family law as a separate State, including:

1970 Convention on the Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations Regulates the recognition of divorces and legal separations across jurisdictions, provided they have been performed according to the correct legal process in the state where divorce was obtained.
  • 1980 Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction Provides an expedited legal method for returning a child internationally abducted by a parent from one member state to another. The Brussels IIa Regulation includes additional provisions to facilitate operation of this Convention between EU member states.
  • 1993 Convention
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