Forumshopping

forum shopping

The deliberate choice of country for a divorce petition to obtain more favourable law.

Forum shopping is the deliberate choice of the country in which a divorce petition is filed, in order to benefit from more favourable rules on alimony, division of assets or custody. Within the EU, the Brussels II-ter Regulation determines which court has jurisdiction, which curbs forum shopping.

The lawyer warned that forum shopping within the EU is barely possible anymore due to the Brussels II-ter Regulation.

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