Are you a single parent and receive no or only partial maintenance from the other parent? Then you can apply for an advance on maintenance payments under certain conditions.

Personal custody includes the right to demand the return of the child from anyone who withholds it from the parents or a parent.

For a minor child of separated parents, appropriate maintenance may be required from the part liable for maintenance.

The proceedings are initiated ex officio by the competent family court, in particular on the basis of suggestions from the Youth Welfare Office, which in turn acts on the basis of reports from neighbours, educators, teachers or relatives, for example.

If you become aware that a child's property is at risk, in particular by his or her parents or one of his parents, report this to the family court at the district court.

If the other parent lives abroad and does not pay child support, you can get assistance from the Beistandschaft as well as the Amtsgericht.

If the other parent lives abroad and does not pay maintenance, you can obtain support from the assistance office and the local court and have the maintenance obligation checked and possibly certified.

You are a single parent and get no money or too little money from the other parent for your child? Then you can get advice and support from the youth welfare office.

As a non-married mother, you can claim maintenance from the child's father on the occasion of the birth of the joint child.

Do you receive advance maintenance payments and there have been changes? Then you must inform your responsible maintenance advance office immediately.

If the other parent liable for maintenance lives in Germany and you want to claim maintenance for your child living abroad, you can have this claim enforced in court.

If the other parent lives abroad and does not pay child support, you can get assistance from the Beistandschaft and the Amtsgericht.

Do you receive an advance on alimony? In this case, the maintenance advance office checks annually whether all the conditions for entitlement to an advance on maintenance are still met.

If the other parent does not provide maintenance, you can receive support from the conservatorship and have the maintenance obligation notarized. The maintenance advance payment office can help you directly financially and make an advance or replacement of maintenance.

You have or are having a child and the father of the child does not want to acknowledge his paternity or is unknown? Then you can get advice and support from the youth welfare office.