How will the proposals help children of separating international couples?
It will make it easier to have consensual divorces by helping couples to avoid legal systems that are foreign to them and difficult to understand. As a result, children would not suffer from drawn-out divorce proceedings. For example, a Swedish-Lithuanian couple who gets married in Sweden, has two children and moves to Italy would be able to agree, even during the divorce proceedings, that Swedish or Lithuanian law applies to their divorce without being obliged to go back to either Sweden or Lithuania to plead their case.
