Alberto Neidhardt presented the paper ‘The Fragmentation of the European family: Is There Life, and Free Movement, after Marriage?’. The paper examines questions related to the cross-border mobility of same-sex couples and of opposite-sex persons who are in non-marital unions. Instead of focusing their work on the recognition of marital status, a significant, but controversial symbolic move that ends up excluding unmarried couples, judicial authorities, advocacy groups, and scholars should look at the promising albeit unexplored recognition of the cross-border effects of all family relations.