The new law sets out a formal procedure for consulting the natural father, if known, or any person who believes that he is a father of a child born out of wedlock, before a child is placed for adoption

to Italy, where the applicant resides and where the family lived when the child was born in March 2017.

On 24 August 2001 the applicant gave birth to her third child.

    Non-contentious proceedings for return of the child On 7 September 2011, relying on the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (“the Hague Convention”

The child had been desired by both.

to the child.

The court found that the applicant’s behaviour had destroyed the relationship between the father and the child.

The guardian noted that the material conditions and the atmosphere in the house where the child was living together with T.H., and T.H.’s mother and sister, were very good, and the child was well taken

    The applicants are a child, A, and her mother, B.

The court underlined that the parent with whom the child lived had no right to interfere with the other parent’s right to see the child and to participate in her upbringing.

Although the decision became final in February 1993, the child remained in public care. The Social Council rejected the parents’ request for further contact with their child.

They allegedly agreed that he would return the child to the applicant on 5 November 2017, but he refused to do so.

Since 2018, upon agreement by her parents after their separation, the child lived with the applicant in Switzerland. The mother remained in Romania.

I have never believed that I am the father of the child. I have recognised this child as mine because I thought I did not have any other option. ...

father of the child.

The choice of means by which to permit recognition of the legal relationship between the child and the intended parent fell within the States’ margin of appreciation.

(a) Reception of a child into care 30.

(a) Reception of a child into care 36.

to visit the child together.