Article 5 Jurisdiction in cases of divorce, legal separation or marriage annulment

The quest for coordination plays an essential role in the jurisdictional rules of the Property Regimes Regulations. Both Regulations aim at concentrating litigation before the courts of one State. Jurisdictional rules are, in principle, inspired by the aim to enable citizens to have the various related procedures handled by the courts of the same Member State. As with Article 4, Article 5 provides, in principle, that where a court of a Member State is seised to rule on a dissolution or annulment of either a marriage or a registered partnership the courts of that State shall have jurisdiction to rule on matters of the matrimonial property regime arising in connection with that case of dissolution or annulment.