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Article 6 Jurisdiction in other cases

United Kingdom

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Where no court of a Member State has jurisdiction pursuant to Article 4 or 5 or in cases other than those provided for in those Articles, jurisdiction to rule on a matter of the spouses' matrimonial property regime shall lie with the courts of the Member State:

  1. (a)

    in whose territory the spouses are habitually resident at the time the court is seised; or failing that

  2. (b)

    in whose territory the spouses were last habitually resident, insofar as one of them still resides there at the time the court is seised; or failing that

  3. (c)

    in whose territory the respondent is habitually resident at the time the court is seised; or failing that

  4. (d)

    of the spouses' common nationality at the time the court is seised.