Delay in case on restricting parental rights of Dagestani native angers her relatives

In Kaliningrad, a court takes an unreasonably long time to consider a claim to restrict the parental rights of Nina, a native of Dagestan, and that prevents the children from leaving for the republic with their father’s family, woman’s relatives point out.

Mukhtar, Nina’s eldest son, has filed a motion to speed up the court’s decision, as the trial is “being unreasonably dragged out,” emphasizes Patimat, a children’s paternal grandmother.

“The children live in an orphanage. The orphanage is good, and we have no complaints ... The children are given the opportunity to be visited by whomever they want. However, it cannot last that long. The case, which could have been resolved in a month, has been stretched out for six months. But the children want to leave for Dagestan to live with their relatives,” said Mukhtar’s grandmother.

According to the woman, her son Magomed, the father of the children, is in Turkey and cannot yet return to Russia because of the threat of criminal prosecution for evading the payment of alimony. At the same time, he is already limited in his parental rights. Therefore, if the court grants the claim of the prosecutor’s office to restrict Nina in her parental rights, then the paternal grandparents will be able to arrange guardianship and provide the children with a place to live.

The children’s grandmother believes that Nina is dragging out the trial, seeking expertise that the children are being pressured.

The subject of the lawsuit of the prosecutor’s office against Nina is the restriction of her parental rights and the collection of alimony payments from her, says a friend of Nina’s family.

“All three children want to live either with their grandparents in Dagestan or in the orphanage, but not with their ‘cruel and depraved’ mother, as they themselves say,” noted the friend of the Nina’s family. He explains that Mukhtar is now 16 years old, and two other Nina’s children are 14 and 10 years old.

A child has the right to choose a place of his or her residence from the age of 10, lawyer Timofei Shirokov points out. Restriction in parental rights means that a parent may not act as a guardian of a child, represent his or her interests in educational institutions and clinics, does not receive allowances and other payments for children, but, on the contrary, pays a certain amount for their maintenance, the lawyer explains.