Hildegund Sünderhauf-Kravets

Hildegund Sünderhauf-Kravets is a German lawyer . She is a professor of law at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg . She became known for her publications on the alternation model , in which the children of separated parents are alternately and equally cared for by both parents.

Life

She first studied political science and philosophy and then law at the University of Konstanz , where she passed her first state examination in 1992. She completed her legal clerkship in Konstanz and Berlin before taking the second state examination in 1995. She then worked as a research associate at the law expert Ekkehart Stein , in which they in 1997 with the issue of mediation in the extra-judicial resolution of environmental conflicts in Germany for Dr. jur. PhD.

From 1997 to 2000 she worked as a lawyer specializing in family law. Since October 2000 she has been working as a professor of law at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg in the social affairs department. Her work focuses on family law, with a particular focus on adoption and custody law. She deals with the law of religious child-rearing as well as the possibilities of conflict management and mediation in separated families.

She gained fame as a proponent of the “changeover model”, in which the children of separated parents are alternately and equally cared for by both parents. That is why she became the most important cooperation partner of the Väteraufbruch für Kinder eV, which in 2012 set up the "Project Group Parity Double Residences". The "International Council for the Paritätische Doppelresidenz" (ICSP) developed from the project group on the awakening of the father, and she works on its board. The ICSP is committed to ensuring that the member states of the Council of Europe legally anchor the change model as a principle after separation and divorce. She maintains contacts with Françoise Hetto-Gaasch, the initiator of Resolution 2079 of the Council of Europe. In 2013 she published the first comprehensive German monograph on the subject of double residence under the title Wechselmodell: Psychologie - Recht --Praxis . In this she sees many advantages in the change model compared to the traditional residence model, especially for the well-being of the child . In contrast to most other western industrialized countries, she criticizes the lack of legal possibilities. These are also the cause of the lack of acceptance and, as a result, the rare choice of the alternate model as a care option for children after separation.

Hildegund Sünderhauf-Kravets is the mother of two daughters.

Book publications

• Mediation in the out-of-court solution of environmental conflicts in Germany . Writings of the Association for Environmental Law. Rhombos-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-930894-09-2
• Alternation model: psychology - law - practice. Alternating childcare by parents after separation and divorce . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18340-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hildegund Sünderhauf-Kravets' curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Evangelical University of Nuremberg
2. ^ H. Sünderhauf: Mediation in the out-of-court solution of environmental conflicts in Germany. Writings of the Association for Environmental Law. Rhombos-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-930894-09-2
3. ↑ vafk accessed on July 25, 2016
4. ↑ Double residence accessed on July 25, 2016
5. ↑ Hildegund Sünderhauf: Prejudices against the interchangeable model: What is right and what is not? - Arguments in case law and findings from psychological research (Part I) in: Der Familien-Rechts-Advisor 9/2013, page 290 ff., Accessed on November 4, 2014 (PDF file, 388 kB)
6. ↑ Lecture in Bozen 2013 (pdf) (accessed on November 4, 2014)