The complex task of determining the habitual residence of the child in parental responsabilty cases

Abstract

The determination of the connecting factor for concretizing the jurisdiction of the European courts in parental responsibility matters is a complex issue that the Court Of Justice of the Unión has been refined through the case law. The open and variable nature of the habitual residence of the child makes the work of legal practitioners somewhat complex, but it also allows us to deal with the different variables arising from the increase in geographical mobility in Europe on a particular case.