RK v K Ch

Subject Matter

CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under European Union Regulation — Matters relating to maintenance obligations — Canadian court ordering claimant, Bulgarian national, to pay maintenance for Canadian national wife and dual national children — Claimant applying to Bulgarian court to reduce maintenance for minor child and terminate obligations to wife and adult child — Whether jurisdiction rules under Regulation applying to application made by “maintenance debtor” to modify decision of court of third state — Whether courts of member state having jurisdiction — Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009, recital (15), arts 1(1), 3(a), 6, 7

(Case C-67/24); EU:C:2025:214; [2025] WLR(D) 186, ECJ