Jurisdiction: First in line

Anna Wagstaff considers competing requirements to protect maintenance creditors and the need to avoid irreconcilable decisions ‘EA v AP highlights the potential conflict between the objective of the maintenance regulation to protect maintenance creditors and the fundamental objective of avoiding irreconcilable decisions.’ EU Regulation No. 4/2009 (known as the maintenance regulation) came into force in …
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International: Crossing borders

David Hodson highlights the provisions of the new EU maintenance regulations ‘The separation of resolution of maintenance and non-maintenance is completely normal for continental European family lawyers, but completely alien and seemingly very strange to English practitioners.’ On 18 June 2011, the EU Maintenance Regulation of 18 December 2008 will apply directly within English domestic …
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