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David, as an Englishman living and working in Scotland I fail to see how being outside the EU would prevent this being an issue. They are not "separate EU member states for this purpose", they are separate legal jurisdictions for all purposes. The same issue would arise if the UK leaves.. There seems to have been a reluctance to recognise different practices in Scotland, since I would suggest the Scottish courts were handling maintenance, for the reasons stated (i.e. they could not grant the divorce without doing so). Seems a bit of jurisdiction-grabbing, and I wonder how the LSG (and the press generally) would have reacted had the position been reversed, and the Court of Session had told London to back off?

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