Few commentaries on EU private international law (PIL) in family and succession matters are currently available on the market and these are usually devoted to specific regulation(s), offering a full overview of both the CJEU case law and the literature concerning the given legal instrument(s).

Unlike these commentaries, EU Private International Law in Family Matters: Legislation and CJEU Case Law collects all the relevant instruments in the field of EU private international law in family matters (the Brussels II-ter Regulation, the Brussels II-bis Regulation, the Maintenance Regulation, the Rome III Regulation, the Succession Regulation, the twin Regulations on property regimes and three international conventions: the 1980 Hague Convention on international child abduction, the 1996 Hague Convention on measures for the protection of children and the 2007 Hague Protocol on maintenance) and complements the legal texts with referencing all decisions issued by the CJEU on these Regulations (currently more than 70). Decisions are not published in their entirety, nor are they limited to the official operative part of the decision. Distinctively and importantly, each and all of the many passages and/or obiter dicta that are disseminated through the decisions have been considered, sorted out and reported in a concise and clear synopsis which has been inserted as a footnote to each relevant part of the applicable rule or Article. This makes the volume a user-friendly, yet complete and accurate, tool for both practitioners and academics who need to keep track of the overwhelming EU case law in cross-border family matters.

This volume provides a brief yet complete guide to approach and understand the functioning of all EU PIL Regulations in family matters as interpreted by the CJEU, thus proving to be a useful tool for the audience of legal practitioners, lawyers, judges and academics to which it is targeted.