Press Release: Judgment in Joined Cases C-401/15 to C-403/15. Noémie Depesme and Others v Ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche

A child in a reconstituted family may be regarded as the child of a step-parent for the purposes of a cross-frontier social advantage.

In this field, the parent-child relationship is defined not in legal but in economic terms, in that the child of a step-parent with the status of migrant worker can claim a social advantage where his step-parent contributes to his maintenance.