Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 Article 5

Conversion of legal separation to divorce

Article 5

Without prejudice to Article 3, a court of a Member State that has given a decision granting a legal separation shall also have jurisdiction to convert that legal separation to a divorce, if the law of that Member State so provides.

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