The beneficiaries of the option to resort to the jurisdiction of the creditor’s habitual residence in the maintenance obligations regulation - the reversal of jurisprudence in the judgment WV versus

Abstract

This brief commentary analyses the judgment of the ECJ, Wv against Landkreis Ham-burg, and the controversy that was settled over the possibility of a public entity appealing to the court of the creditor’s habitual residence, according to Article 3 (b) of the Maintenance Obligations Regulation, in an action for recovery of maintenance brought against the debtor concerning the maintenance credit that was transmitted to him by legal subrogation, as a result of social assistance benefits.