Which judgment addresses the idea that the center of a person’s interests is decisive for habitual residence, excluding routine diplomatic postings in most cases?

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The question is testing how habitual residence is determined in private international law—the place where a person’s real life is centered, not just where they happen to be living at any given moment. The key idea is that the center of the person’s life, including family, employment, and daily ties, decides habitual residence, and routine or temporary postings do not usually override those ties.

Lindenbaumer is the judgment that makes this explicit: it treats the center of interests as the decisive factor for habitual residence and notes that routine diplomatic postings, by their nature temporary or professional duties, should not automatically shift a person’s habitual residence. If a person maintains the bulk of their life—their home, family, finances, and social ties—in one place, that place remains their habitual residence even if they spend extended periods abroad for work. This principle is why Lindenbaumer is the best answer to the question.

The other cases address related issues in private international law, but they do not articulate this precise center-of-interests approach coupled with the exclusion of routine postings as a general rule for habitual residence.