Article 3 Obligatory stays of civil partnership proceedings
Paragraph (2) applies if, in proceedings for a dissolution order, a party to the civil partnership applies before the beginning of the trial for an order that the proceedings be stayed.
Subject to rule 5(3), the court will order that the proceedings be stayed if it appears to the court that—
in respect of the same civil partnership, proceedings for the dissolution or annulment of the civil partnership are continuing in a related jurisdiction;
the parties to the civil partnership have lived together after its formation;
the place where they lived together—
on the date when the proceedings before the court were begun, or
if they did not live together at that date, where they last lived together before those proceedings were begun,
is in that jurisdiction; and
either of those parties was habitually resident in that jurisdiction throughout the year ending with the date on which they last lived together before the proceedings before the court were begun.
This rule applies to proceedings only so far as they are for a dissolution order.