Laigirl, I´m glad that your brother look something positive to get his rights. Best of good luck.... Keep the new update
Oh yes, I had been talked to my friend yesterday about this and I has to add to correct my one mistake.
My friend is a single mother of one daughter.
She know alot about mother rights and of course what I said everything are almost correct in my previous posts... one thing I made a mistake is court...
Yes, mother MUST inform the court where she and her child lives if they are not longer live in Germany. What I mentioned in my previous posts that mother don´t have to inform the court where she lives is my mistake. Sorry....
I told her about unmarried father rights in US law. She is not agree with those law because unmarried fathers could be crime, volience, bastard, use something out of revenage etc. etc. etc. and demand their visitation rights which it´s unsafety environment for the child. The child need to protect from those condition like what we often saw on US movies. I explained her that some of fathers are good person like what you mentioned about your brother, Laigirl. I also explained her that some of Germans are also good fathers, too. She explained that it´s depend on the background of unmarried fathers, the court can decide how often they can visit their child but the court can´t do anything but respect mother´s rejection on father´s visitation rights only if there are reason and also can´t forbid unmarried mother and child to move out to other countries but they MUST being inform by mother where she & her child lives. The court and Youth Welfare Service Department are only one who know where mother and child lives and do not have to inform the unmarried father where they are because they respect mother & child´s privacy and safety.
This is German law to protect mother and child rights.
Anyway, I would like to add my post about my friend´s side. She had been through bad time with the father of their daughter. He fought at court to have his visitation rights for want to see his daughter. The court ask my friend for the reason why she reject him to have his visitation rights. The reason she rejected him is because of aloholic and swear bad languages/aggressive which it´s no good and safe for child to see like this. She´s happy that the court protect her and her child rights because it´s her who born a child, not father.
Well, every countries have different law systems.