Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: European Court of human rights

Date: 12/03/2009

Subject: Decision on the impossibility, under German law, to grant joint custody for parents of children born out of wedlock without the consent of both parents, deemed discriminatory against the father and in contrast with the combined norms of article 14 and 8 of the ECHR

Parties: Zaunegger c/ Germania

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination