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The entrepreneur Christina Block speaks at a press conference.
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The Block House founder's daughter has been arguing with her ex-husband over their children for years.
The German judiciary has now declared that it is no longer responsible for the custody dispute.
Hamburg - Following a decision by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, German courts no longer have jurisdiction over the custody dispute between Hamburg entrepreneur Christina Block and her ex-husband.
The court announced on Tuesday that the reason is that the children now have their permanent center of life in Denmark.
With its decision on Monday, the Family Senate confirmed a corresponding first instance decision of the family court, against which the mother had lodged a complaint.
In a decision dated October 17, 2023, the family court rejected both parents' applications for custody as inadmissible because the German courts no longer had international jurisdiction during the course of the proceedings.
(12UF 139/23)
The case recently caused a stir when the children were brought from Denmark to Germany on New Year's Eve by previously unknown persons.
They were with their mother in Hamburg and were then brought back to their father in Denmark after a court decision.
Christina Block and the father of her children married in August 2005 and divorced about ten years later.
The father did not send the children back to Germany in the summer of 2021 after one of the agreed visits.
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