As Liz Gooch reports in the New York Times, in a piece titled ”Malaysian Custody Dispute Lost Between Courts,”  Malaysia has a two-tier judicial system, with Islamic Shariahcourts handling family law disputes involving Muslim families and secular civ

The countries of the European Union have been divided for several years on whether to adopt a regulation governing choice of law matters for divorce and separation.  The ”Rome III Regulation” proposed in 2006 did not obtain the required unanimous consent of EU member countries.  As an alternative, ten EU countries have now indicated that they wo