In a judgment handed down on Thursday, 10 February, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the length of residence required for a Member State’s court to rule on a divorce petition may depend on the nationality of the petitioner (Case C-522/20).
An Italian national, who has been living in Austria for more than six months, disputed the fact that the Austrian court declared that it did not have the jurisdiction to rule on his petition for the dissolution of his...