The custody battle with her ex-husband has caused Hamburg businesswoman Christina Block to incur high legal fees. “I have spent well over half a million euros on the legal battle so far,” Block told the “Bild” newspaper. “And the trials and proceedings are still ongoing. I simply cannot understand what drives this person.”
For four years, her ex-husband has been blocking an independent expert from preparing a psychological assessment of the children in Denmark, said Block. “In the past, a German expert was even threatened with the police if she wanted to come to Denmark. It must be possible for an independent expert to assess the mother, father and children.”
Block and her ex-husband have been fighting for years over custody of the two younger of their four children, aged around 10 and 13. Since the end of August 2021, they have been living with their father in Denmark after they did not return to their mother from a visit. The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, which had granted the mother the right to determine their place of residence in October 2021, ruled on February 19, 2024 that German courts no longer had jurisdiction.
On New Year’s Eve, the two children were brought to Germany by unknown persons in a cloak-and-dagger operation. However, after a court order, the mother had to let them go back to Denmark. The public prosecutor’s office is investigating the 51-year-old and her father on charges of abducting minors. They are suspected of having organized the child abduction on New Year’s Eve and of having carried it out with the help of other suspects. The public prosecutor’s office has already had business and private premises searched several times.
