Failure of domestic authorities to take necessary and timely steps to enforce the applicants’ contact rights with his daughter, Violation of Article 8
EUROPE: FAMILY LIFE - CONTACT RIGHTS
European Court of Human Rights, judgment, 13 April 2023, E.K. v. Latvia (application no. 25942/20)
«The applicant, Mr E.K., is a Latvian national who was born in 1983 and lives in Saldus County (Latvia). The case concerns the applicant’s complaint about non-enforcement of a judgment granting him contact rights with his daughter, born in 2013. He and the child’s mother separated in 2016. The courts dissolved the marriage in 2018 and determined his contact rights, which, according to him, have however been extremely limited due to obstruction by the mother. Relying on Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention, the applicant complains that the Latvian authorities have not helped him to enforce his contact rights with his daughter, in the face of the mother’s opposition. He alleges that in 2017 he had an excellent relationship with his daughter, but that over time her opinion has changed owing to the mother’s influence.»
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