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Long-form legal analysis, policy dossiers, and practitioner tools on German family law, Jugendamt practice, cross-border custody, and human-rights accountability.

Working Paper No. 2 · May 2026

The Jugendamt-Stellungnahme as Procedural Shield

How procedural gaps, unrecorded interviews, hearsay laundering, language-access failures and unstructured Kindeswohl reasoning can be embedded upstream in a Jugendamt report before they appear in a family-court order.

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Briefing Dossier · May 2026

The German Custody Data Gap

Briefing dossier comparing German custody-data opacity with more transparent jurisdictions and supporting PETI-level transparency advocacy.