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What is 'forum shopping'?

'Forum shopping' is when parties to a global family law dispute, research the 'market' and try to get their dispute heard in a country with a favourable legal system. They may actively  plan,or even manipulate,after appropriate research. Their aim is to cause the venue for the legal proceedings to be in one country, rather than another, and for one country's laws, rather than another to be applied, because it gives them a legal advantage.

Forum shopping is often employed in 'international divorce' where the legal systems related to marital property and child custody can vary considerably from country to country.