Migrants in European Family Law

This online seminar addresses complex, practical legal issues at the interface between European family and migration law.

It will address issues related to the portability of the personal status of migrants, in particular the recognition of marriage and divorce.

We will discuss the protection of migrant children in Europe, care and guardianship of unaccompanied minors, the frictions between family law and migration law in the case of child abduction and the structuring of return procedures.

The seminar will also present the recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on family and migration law, including the right to family reunification.

Key topics

• Personal status across borders, recognition of marriage and divorce
• Protection of minors, guardianship and childcare
• Child marriage and its effects
• International child abduction
• Cross-border cooperation
• Recent case law of the ECtHR

Who should attend?

Family lawyers, lawyers in private practice and notaries, judges, ministry officials, academics, youth welfare officers, representatives of NGOs and children's rights organisations, lawyers working in the field of migration and asylum law who wish to understand the points of friction with European family law.