When a couple has different nationalities, lives in different countries, or owns assets in multiple jurisdictions, divorce ceases to be a local matter. The most common concern is understandable: “Can we get a divorce by mutual agreement?”
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Families with ties in more than one country are no longer an exception; changes of residence for work, mixed marriages, returns to the country of origin or simply the decision to "try luck" in another city.
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In international child custody cases, the question of which state decides is not a matter of intuition or personal preference. It is a determination of judicial jurisdiction subject to strict rules that operate independently of perception.
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In a high-net-worth international divorce, the first mistake is usually not "bad negotiation." It is often earlier and more structural: initiating proceedings in the wrong court or allowing the other party to...
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International child abduction cases are not "won" through a large volume of documents or lengthy narratives. They are defined and decided based on very specific elements, with extremely tight deadlines and a limited scope of proceedings. In most cases
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Why recognition in Spain is a key step. Many families residing in Spain decide to adopt a child born and residing in another country. The process does not end when the adoption is formalized before the Civil Registry.
Read moreShared custody when one parent is a digital nomad. The breakdown of cohabitation ends the couple, but does not extinguish parental responsibility: Separation and divorce do not release parents from
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When a couple separates and one of the parents moves abroad, two clear legal concerns usually arise: This article explains, based on Spanish regulations and case law, how both pensions work when the
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Registration of children born through surrogacy in the Civil Registry: The key points of the new Instruction of April 28, 2025. In recent years, numerous Spanish families have turned to surrogacy.
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Separating with a young child and your ex-partner deciding to move to another country presents you with a very specific question: how do we put in writing, valid both inside and outside of Spain, what
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