Child Custody Investigations Rostock

After a separation, which is naturally accompanied by many issues such as the division of property and maintenance payments, the question of child custody arises when children are involved. In all matters relating to separation, maintenance, and custody, the private investigators of Kurtz Investigations Rostock and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are your IHK-certified and discreet partners: +49 381 3739 0080.

Top Priority: The Child’s Welfare

In most separation cases, family courts try to award joint custody. The ways this can be implemented fairly vary: the child lives with one parent while the other receives a – often biweekly – visitation right, or the child alternates between the two parents over predetermined periods. Regardless of how joint custody is managed, the right to determine the child’s place of residence belongs to the parent with whom the child is currently staying. This means, for example, that the parent the child lives with can decide alone whether the child goes to the cinema or swimming with friends. However, this does not mean that the parent alone can decide whether the child participates in a multi-day school trip.

 

If you feel that your ex-partner is abusing the right to determine the child’s residence and you are no longer included in decisions that should be made jointly, contact our private investigators in Rostock: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-rostock.de. We are here to support you with advice and action.

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In all disputes that naturally arise after the end of a marriage, the child’s welfare should never be subordinated to one’s own interests. Unfortunately, not everyone adheres to this principle.

Irresponsible Handling of Custody | Detectives Investigate (Case Study)

The key question in custody arrangements is: Who is fit to care for the child? This includes not only the provision, education, and, if applicable, management of the child’s assets, but also responsible handling of the child and their health. The following case, handled in cooperation with our partner detective agency, illustrates this:

After the Separation: Child Chooses “One Side”

Margit and Jörg (all names changed) were married for 18 years and have a 15-year-old daughter, Lisa. Margit celebrates her 40th birthday at home with the family before going out in the evening with friends. There she meets Michael, 14 years her junior, and begins an affair that she does not hide from her family. She wants to make up for perceived lost time. Jörg is shocked, while Lisa finds her mother’s behaviour “cool”. Margit moves into Michael’s apartment, and Lisa wishes to live with her mother and Michael, expecting more freedom. A joint custody arrangement is agreed upon, allowing Lisa to see her father whenever she wants.

Neglect of Parental Duties

About three months later – Lisa had in the meantime spent several days and weekends with her father because her mother was constantly out with Michael – Lisa visits her father unexpectedly after school because she feels unwell and Margit and Michael are again not home. Jörg discovers that his daughter has a fever and asks what happened. She shows him a navel piercing and says it hurts terribly. Jörg immediately takes his daughter to the doctor, who diagnoses an infection. The examination also reveals two tattoos, one of which is also infected. When asked why a tattoo and piercing studio would perform such procedures on minors without parental consent, Lisa remains silent.

 

Jörg confronts Margit and asks why she allowed the tattoos and piercing. Margit denies everything, claiming she knew nothing and signed no consent forms. Desperate, Jörg tells a friend, who advises him to have the matter investigated by our detective partner. It ultimately emerges that Margit had indeed signed the necessary permissions. But that was not all: two weeks earlier, she had allowed Lisa to go camping with friends over the weekend on the Dutch North Sea coast without adult supervision. Furthermore, on a Saturday when Margit and Michael enjoyed a wellness weekend together, Lisa was allowed to invite friends to a party where alcohol was consumed. With the assistance of private detectives, it was proven that Margit had shown herself unfit to care for her daughter in several respects. The ex-partners subsequently agreed to modify the custody arrangement so that Lisa would now live with her father, while the mother, preoccupied with herself at the time, would visit at irregular intervals.

Support from a Detective Agency in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

If you doubt your ex-partner’s ability to care for the shared child, or face other issues concerning custody, turn to the trusted private investigators of Kurtz Investigations Rostock in Rostock: +49 381 3739 0080.