The National Court has issued a ruling forcing the Ministry of Justice to compensate 50,000 euros to grandparents who were deprived of seeing their granddaughters for years, after the separation of their parents, for the "extraordinary procedural delay" .

These grandparents went to court for the first time in 2007 to ask the judge to allow them to see their granddaughters, after the separation of their son and daughter-in-law. Although the judge proved them right, that court order was never enforced and the ex-daughter-in-law kept preventing them from seeing the girls .

Specifically, the judge requires compensation to the plaintiffs with 15,000 euros for each one, which adds up to 10,000 euros for each of them that the administration of justice had already recognized in a resolution of March 23, 2017.

The magistrate considers that the "extraordinary procedural delay that resulted in the moral damages of the appellants", that is, the delay in the judicial process that prevented them from seeing their granddaughters for years , appears "insufficiently compensated" with the amount recognized by the administration of justice.

This compensation is lower than that which the same court recognized the father of the girls, son in turn of the plaintiffs today, for the lack of contact with their daughters -which amounted to 52,000 euros- "as it is a different relationship than unites parents with their children, of the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, considering the first one more intense, at least quantitatively, according to the judge of the National Court.

What is involved, as read in the sentence, is to quantify some "moral damages" derived from "the aggravation of the consequences of the lack of personal relationship, in the present case of grandparents with their granddaughters, because of the prolongation of the measures of personal withdrawal agreed at the time by the judge. "

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