Judgment_paragraph 44 · MPA v LCDNMT (C-501/20)

44The Court has already held that, for the purposes of interpreting Article 3(1)(a) of Regulation No 2201/2003, the view should be taken that the concept of ‘habitual residence’ is characterised, in principle, by two factors, namely, first, the intention of the person concerned to establish the habitual centre of his or her interests in a particular place and, second, a presence which is sufficiently stable in the Member State concerned (judgment of 25 November 2021, IB (Habitual residence of a spouse – Divorce), C‑289/20, EU:C:2021:955, paragraph 57), since a spouse may have, at a given time, only one habitual residence for the purposes of that provision (see, to that effect, judgment of 25 November 2021, IB (Habitual residence of a spouse – Divorce), C‑289/20, EU:C:2021:955, paragraph 51).