Recognition of a foreign judgment on divorce, legal separation, marriage annulment
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The rule is automatic recognition: by updating the civil status records on the basis of the foreign judgment and by raising the recognition of the foreign judgment as an incidental question before the courts of a member state
There is an exception to the rule: by applying for a decision recognising the foreign judgment before the authority designated by a member state.