Custody dispute
Lawyer: Christina Block did not have children taken out of Denmark
Christina Block has been fighting over custody of two of her four children for years. photo
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The case of entrepreneur Christina Block is preoccupying the courts. The children live with their father in Denmark, from where strangers brought them to Hamburg. Now Block’s lawyer is in touch.
Christina Block is an “absolutely law-abiding personality.” It will now have to be clarified who may have given the order or acted themselves. A number of people repeatedly offered the mother help. Block is the daughter of the founder of the Block House restaurant chain.
background
The 50-year-old entrepreneur and her ex-husband (49) have been fighting in court for years over custody of two of their four children. The two children have been living with their father in Denmark for more than two years, although a court in Hamburg had temporarily transferred the right of residence to the mother. The regulation should apply until a decision is made on the main issue. According to a Hamburg court spokesman, this decision is still pending.
According to the Danish police, unknown people attacked the father in southern Denmark near the German border on New Year’s Eve and took the 10-year-old boy and the 13-year-old girl in two cars. The Danish police said it then turned out that the children were with their mother in Hamburg.
Children back in Denmark
After an urgent application from the father, the Hamburg Higher Regional Court finally issued an interim order on Friday requiring the children to return to their father. His client then immediately had him drive her children to the relevant police station under police protection, Kury said. Since then, the children have been back in Denmark and have been handed over to their father’s care.
The Hamburg police and representatives of the youth welfare office had previously visited the family in Hamburg on Wednesday evening last week. The children were “apparently doing well physically,” as a police spokeswoman said last Thursday.
Kury sharply criticized the Danish judiciary because, according to him, it did not respect or respect German court decisions. According to Berlin family lawyer Peter Jungnatalh, Denmark is the only EU country that has not adopted two important legal regulations from the European Union. It does not automatically recognize family court decisions on custody in EU partner countries.