Arrêt Garcia Avello (2003) also notes that the Strasbourg Court sees a rising emphasis on which principle in family-law matters?

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The key idea tested is how the Court prioritizes recognition of family relationships and personal identity across borders in family-law matters under the European Convention on Human Rights. In Garcia Avello, the Court signals that safeguarding private and family life increasingly depends on recognizing a family’s cross-border reality. Belgium’s rule would have limited a child’s surname to a single domestic standard, effectively ignoring the Spanish origins of the family. The Court found this to infringe the child’s right to respect for private life because it refused to acknowledge the family’s identity as shaped by another country’s naming practice. So, the rising emphasis is on recognizing the family’s status and identity across jurisdictions, rather than enforcing strict domestic classifications.