Partnership and Family

• Apply for a pension settlement for surviving spouses from statutory accident insurance upon remarriage

  As a surviving dependent, if you remarry or enter into a new civil partnership, you will receive a lump-sum settlement from the statutory accident insurance instead of the pension.

• education system in another Member State

  If you want to live in another country, you can find further information here about rights and obligations in the field of education in each Member State of the European Union.

• Parental responsibility for minor children

  Here you will find information on your rights and obligations regarding birth, child maintenance obligations in cross-border family situations, as well as information on surrogacy and adoption.

• Rules and recognition of marriage

  If you wish to get married, you will find more detailed information here about your rights and obligations regarding marriage and the recognition of marriage.

• Equal Treatment Office for EU Workers

  The Equal Treatment Office EU Employees offers comprehensive information on living and working in Germany in eleven EU languages.

• Apply for funding from the ESF Plus federal program "Together for Quality: Involving Children in All-Day Schools“

  School authorities as well as public or private providers of child and youth services who want to improve quality at primary schools with all-day offerings by strengthening the participation and co-determination of children can apply for funding.

• initiate or apply for the indexing of media harmful to minors

  As an authority or a recognized independent youth welfare organization, if you consider the content of a medium to be harmful to minors, you can apply for or suggest listing proceedings to the Federal Agency for the Protection of Children and Young Persons in Media (BzKJ).

• Apply for sickness benefit for sick children for statutory health insurance policyholders

  If you cannot work due to your child's illness, you can receive child sickness benefits from your statutory health insurance fund.

• Report the employment of a domestic help and other household-related services on a minijob basis

  If you employ a domestic helper on a minijob basis, you must register them with the Minijob-Zentrale using the household check procedure.

• Registration of a marriage abroad by a German registry office

  You can also have your marriage concluded abroad subsequently entered in the marriage register. However, there is no obligation to do so.