An improper enumeration of internatioanl jurisdiction sources on parental responsability matters: the judgment of the Spanish Court of Appeal of A Coruña (Section 4) number 119/2018, of 4 th April

Abstract

Since conventional and EU rules have been integrated into the Spanish legal system, the configuration of international jurisdiction system on parental responsibility be applied by Spanish judges and courts of law rests on three normative blocks: European regulation, represented by “Brussels II bis” Regulation; conventional system, represented by the 1996 Hague Convention; and internal laws, represented by the Organic Law of Judicial Power. This comment shows us that the system’s complexity raises the challenge of a correct handling of sources.