Sanky disclaimer:
OK, before you all start, yes it is one of "those" cases. She has several kids from equally several "fathers". So lets us save ourselves all the "sanky"-comments... let's just assume she is guilty as charged for the sake of not wasting all our time with well known and accepted comments.
OK, before you all start, yes it is one of "those" cases. She has several kids from equally several "fathers". So lets us save ourselves all the "sanky"-comments... let's just assume she is guilty as charged for the sake of not wasting all our time with well known and accepted comments.
The child, however has NO guilt! And that's the point here.
The child, now 8 years old, is the son of a German man and his Dominican mother. At some point the two adults were even legally married (so I understand, but have separated/divorced years ago), but CERTAIN is, that the father "declared" his son here in the DR and apparently also with German authorities and the kid DOES bear his last name and HAS a GERMAN passport.
The mother is living with her other children and now has a stable relationship with an American man who tries to teach her family life (not a completely easy task, but they are actually ALL trying).
Apparently, the German child's father was sending about EUR300.oo every month. I don't know if that is based on any type of sentence.
Apparently, the father of the child in question, now found out that the mother has a new man in her life and allegedly declared that he is NOT going to send more than EUR100.oo a month, suggesting that the "other" guy may take on from there.
Things are so bad, that I bought the child's school books and the mother is behind with his tuition fees and school bus costs. I don't want to reach to far in with my "helping hand", we all know how that works.
HOWEVER, and this is my QUESTION here:
I feel that as this German gentleman IS the LEGAL DECLARED father, the child RECOGNIZED with GERMAN authorities, this child has a RIGHT to child support and that this support should be enforceable across border, or the big pond in this case.
- WHERE to go? The German Consulate in Santo Domingo? (is there a honorary consulate on the North Coast?)
- HOW to proceed?
... J-D.