There are numerous questions associated with separating or divorcing if you
have children. What support is available to separated parents or lone parents? What
do custody rights include? What do visitation rights include? Who can decide on what?
What name do I use and what name does my child use? What happens if one of the
partners remarries?
Services:
Are you receiving advance maintenance payments? The maintenance advance office checks annually whether all requirements for the entitlement to maintenance advance are still met.
You receive advance child support and there have been changes? Report them immediately.
You have or will have a child and the father of the child does not want to acknowledge his paternity or is unknown? Get advice on what you can do and who can help you.
Personal custody includes the right to demand the child's surrender from anyone who withholds the child from the parents or a parent.
If you are a single parent and do not receive child support from the other parent or receive it only irregularly, you can apply for an advance on child support.
You, as a non-married mother, can claim alimony from the child's father on the occasion of the birth of the common child.
After divorce, children or the former spouses are entitled to maintenance.
If you are separated as parents of a minor child, you can demand reasonable maintenance from the other parent.
Here you can get information about divorce.
Here you will find information on court-appointed guardianship for minors.
Under certain circumstances, a supplemental guardian may be appointed in addition to the parents' custody of a child or youth.
If the other parent does not pay child support, you can get assistance from the Beistandschaft and have the obligation to pay child support notarized. The maintenance advance...
To enforce maintenance claims against a person obliged to pay maintenance who lives abroad, you can obtain support from the local court. For the enforcement of child support,...
You are a single parent and get no money or too little money from the other parent for your child? Then you can get advice and support from the youth welfare office.
