Dear vaters, dearl all,

I am writing in English because I am a Spanish citizen living in Frankfurt am Main since 1998 and working at an International Bank. So, first my apologies for that.

My case is that I was married to a Spanish woman in 2000 and we had two children in Frankfurt (my son born in 2002 and my daughter born in 2004) . In 2005, we were still married and I had the shared custody of the children then my ex wife took the children away to Spain without my permission.  I suit her in Spain according to the Hague Convention Treaty of 1980 and I won the case in first and in second instance and she returned to Germany in January 2006 but to Karlsruhe instead of Frankfurt. The German authorities did not take the required measures to ensure a contact with my children and during one and a half year I only had contact with my children 32 hours! meanwhile the Richterin decided that I should leave the house and pay unterhalt money for my children (481 EUR for each) and 1750 EUR to my ex wife (she lyed at the Court because she did not mentioned that she was working in a Spanish company and later on my ex´wife unterhalt was reduced/eliminated). The German authorities did not take any other measures to give me the custody of the children and I think I was discriminated  because; i) first, I was a man and;ii) second I was a foreigner.

The Spanish authorities took over the divorce (my ex wife presented a demand there) and they decided to give the custody to my ex wife because the children were accustomed to her (conclusion after a kidnaping and after more than one year without having contact with them!!) ,however, they imposed that the children should live in Frankfurt and have a very close contact to me of two days per week (Tuesday and Thursday) and every second weekend. In any case, I opposed to the decission of the Spanish Court to give her the custody (according to the Hague Convention Treaty of 1980 the family court of the residence of the family before
the kidnapping should be in charge, so Frankfurt am Main) and I had claimed to the Constitutional Court in Spain and if this will be rejected then I will claim to the European Court of Justice.

Well to make the story short, I am having a very regular contact with my children, now they are 6 and 4 years old. I am living in Frankfurt am Main with my partner and her daugther and I will not leave Frankfurt in the coming years, however, my ex-wife would like to come back to Spain and she had a demand in the Spanish Court to ask for permission to live in Spain with the two children (who speak fluently German and spent up to now all of their lives here). We are going to oppose to this demand (asking for the custody of the children, of course the mother is free to go wherever she wants to go but it would be detrimental for the stability of the children to move to another country, school, house, language and so on) but here is my question, but what can I do to claim the German authorities to defend the interests of my children not to lose their father, moreover if the Spanish Court will decide that the children can come back with the mother that would be a break in the Hague Convention Treaty of 1980 between Germany and Spain that in the future can affect other cases between Germany and Spain so it would be a Spanish Court decission that in the future can affect fathers-mothers in Germany . May you recomend any action? what can I do?