First Meeting of Working Group II. Preparation of a Handbook on Best Practices concerning Resolution of cross-border family conflicts: Custody and Visiting Rights, Barcelona, 22-24 May 2012

This meeting takes place under the second main component of the project: Resolution of Cross-Border Family Conflicts. The objectives of this activity will be to have a preliminary review of actual obstacles to the adoption of the Hague Conventions related to the this component and, as main objective, to prepare a handbook which identifies best practices concerning the resolution of cross-border family conflicts. The Handbook shall take into account the experience of the Hague Conference and of the Malta Process and in particular “the General Principles and the Guide to Good Practice on Transfrontier Contact concerning Children” prepared by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. This is the first of 5 meetings devoted to this issue and will focus more particularly on custody and visiting rights.