A had 43-year-old Nigerian with a married woman having an affair. This resulted in twins - he has seen his now 5-year-old daughters, but never before. A mother and her husband decided the marriage (the legal father of the children was the fact) and actively pursue the resulting children. Then the couple the biological father refused any contact with his two daughters.
His appeal was dismissed by the District Court initially accepted and set a regular meeting of father and children. In contrast, the mother turned and was in all instances of German law, which made the father the contact impossible.
Today, with the decision "vs. Anayo. Germany" (Application no 20578/07) on Dec 21, 2010, now the European Court of Human Rights that such decisions violate the natural father and the children in their right to family life under Article 8 of the ECHR and condemned the Federal Republic of Germany to pay damages and reimbursement of costs.
The family communities were to protect , even if, as in this case, the father never had the opportunity to build a contact with the children. Because this is not lying to him, who always wanted to take care of his children, but for the mother or the couple, which made him any contact impossible.
As the lawyer of Nigerian, Rainer Schmid previously said, this ruling may have significant "impact on the family concept and the legal status of the natural father" in German legal practice.
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