Initiative der Großeltern von Trennung und Scheidung betroffener Kinder p a g e 1

Enclosure- 1

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Dear Mr. , dear Ms. X,Essen, 15.6.01

we would herewith like to draw your attention to a problem that does not only concern fathers or mothers who do not have custody of their children - but also grandparents as well.

The grandparents who live nearby their grandchild (approx. 200 m away) were granted by the court a visiting right of 4 hours per day for 4 days per year.

Xhad a visiting right on a weekend but could not reach

Y on the telephone (as usual). Since X works in the USA at the moment

he asked his mother to go to the kindergarten to see whether the children

are really there. The grandmother went to the kindergarten, she saw one of her

grandchildren, called him by name and they spoke for a while.

A few days later the grandparents received a letter of the opposing lawyer

saying that if they did so once again they would finish up in court.

Thereupon I spoke to a judge who explained the following to me:

Since the grandparents have a visiting right for the grandchildren

of 4 hours for 4 days per year, they are only allowed to tend to this

visiting right. They contravene the law when they speak to their grandchildren.

There is no legal contravention, however, if the grandchildren come to see

the grandparents on their own and speak to them.

This is the reality:

When the grandparents go shopping and the kindergarten is located on their way to the shopping centre, or when the grandparents go towards their car or go for a walk, they are consequently forced to pass silently their grandchildren in order not to contravene the current law in force.

The grandparents of the other parent can have contact anytime.

They can speak with other children anytime but not with their own grandchildren.

We are writing these lines to you in the hope that you will help us to remove the possibilities for such standpoints to exist that are below human dignity, and even today are still admissible in law.

Yours sincerely,

Rita Boegershausen

The comment of Dr. Jäckel:

This way of dispensation of justice is so perverse and is reflected by the fact that any person, whether man or woman, being the new partner in the life of a separated or divorced parent can have contact any time and can bring to bear educational measures upon the children that are part of their new relationship. The natural parent, however, can be excluded and penalised in case of contravention.

This way of dispensation of justice proves that on a legal basis children are nothing else than a separated part of the body of a human being to which they can be assigned in terms of vested rights.

Übersetzt von:

Ingrid Schmitt

Dipl. – Dolmetscherin