SUGUD was established after a prolonged and deeply documented struggle with the German family justice system, a system in which the rule of law and constitutional guarantees have increasingly failed to protect families and children alike.
In practice, countless families find themselves deprived of any genuine legal certainty or effective protection.
Children are separated, parental bonds are dismantled, and fundamental rights are compromised within a framework where meaningful state oversight over its own institutions is largely absent.
What is particularly alarming is that in a significant number of family courts across Germany, judicial decisions appear increasingly detached from the binding force of law, constitutional principles, and international human rights standards.
Legal norms are applied selectively, procedural safeguards are weakened, and accountability mechanisms remain ineffective.
Against this backdrop, it becomes difficult to reconcile repeated demands by family court judges for judicial immunity and independence with the simultaneous abdication of their core judicial responsibility: to act as impartial guardians of the law.
Judicial independence cannot serve as a shield for legal arbitrariness, nor can immunity justify the erosion of justice itself.
SUGUD exists to document these structural failures, to give voice to affected children and families, and to advocate for transparency, accountability, and the restoration of genuine legal protection within family justice systems in Germany and beyond.