By The Local – Germany 7/3/2012
“…The new bill is a response to a Constitutional Court ruling from 2010, which said that the current law, allowing joint custody only with the mother’s agreement, is unconstitutional. This followed a verdict from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which said that the German law denied single fathers a basic human right. …”
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