Press Release: Advocate General’s Opinion in Joined Cases C-401/15, C-402/15 and C-403/15. Depesme and Kerrou, Kaufmann, Lefort v Ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche

Advocate General Wathelet considers that a child in a reconstituted family may be regarded as the child of the stepparent 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 stepparent with the status of migrant worker can claim a social advantage where his stepparent in fact contributes to his maintenance.