After the end of a marriage, disputes often arise. Arrangements concerning child custody and child maintenance – or maintenance for the former partner – can frequently only be settled in court. Mutual agreement often falls by the wayside: one partner may gain an advantage and benefit from the situation, while the other is left facing difficulties.
Changes in the employment or income situation of an ex-partner, or the start of a new relationship resembling marriage or even an actual remarriage, may legally require adjustments to previously established maintenance agreements. For this reason, former partners often conceal such life changes. Violations of the duty of care, which could lead to a modification of custody arrangements, are also common suspicions among our clients.
If you suspect that your ex-partner is violating their legal duty to disclose relevant information, do not hesitate to contact the private investigators of Kurtz Detective Agency Berlin: +49 30 5557 8641-0.
For some time now the rules on custody have changed: fathers can now apply for joint custody even without the mother’s consent. Such an application may only be rejected if there are serious reasons against it. Those reasons must not be mere personal reservations of the mother against the father but must relate to factors that could impair the welfare of the child. The family court must decide.
The detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Berlin frequently investigate to obtain evidence of such serious reasons. Our clients include both women and men who suspect the other parent of using violence against the child, regularly drinking or taking other drugs while caring for the child, repeatedly leaving child care to unsuitable third parties, beginning a new relationship with a person who has a harmful influence on the child, or otherwise breaching their duty of care. The objective of commissioning our detectives is usually to secure sole custody.
An interesting side note: Nowhere in Germany are fewer marriages contracted per capita than in Berlin. Consequently the capital also ranks in the lower third for divorce rates per head of population.