After a separation or divorce, the contact between the child and one of the parents often breaks down or encounters difficulties. This happens especially when parents and children live in different countries and the parents battle over other issues such as maintenance, custody, division of family property and etc.
For instance:
- In pending proceedings for divorce before a Bulgarian court, the mother who is Bulgarian applies for exercise of parental rights and obligations. The father who is British has requested regime of personal relations with his children as he is planning to return to the United Kingdom. The mother argues that she is afraid of setting of a regime of personal relations between the father and the children in view of the fact that if the children go to the United Kingdom, their father may detain them there.
- Bulgarian citizens live in Germany in cohabitation. They have a child without being married. Later on the father returns to Bulgaria and he has permanently contacts with his daughter on the phone. He sends her presents and when he is able, he travels to Germany and visit her at home. A few years after that, the mother refuses any contacts between the child and the father.
How International Social Service - Bulgaria can help
- By providing consultancy and advice with respect to how the relations between children and parents can be maintained or reestablished.
- By assisting in reaching agreement between parents regarding the exercise of parental rights and obligations.
- By helping with respect to establishing contact between the child and the other parent, if the contact has been interrupted or it never existed.
- By providing social reports to the court which serve as the basis for the decision-making.
- By assisting in supervised contacts between the child and the parent.