Interim suspension of court-ordered coercive paternity test due to disproportionate harm to family relationship

The Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) ordered the renewal of a previous interim injunction for an additional six months, suspending a lower court's decision that sought to enforce a paternity test via buccal swab, thereby allowing the constitutional complaint to proceed. The dispute concerned a family law matter where the respondent challenged the coercive nature of the paternity investigation, arguing that the psychological harm to the social-family relationship caused by the forced medical procedure and a potential adverse ruling in the main proceedings outweighed the benefits of immediate evidence gathering. The court's decision was based on the doctrine of balancing competing interests under constitutional law, specifically finding that the probable destruction of the social-family relationship and the severe disadvantages of conducting the examinations justified the provisional suspension of the lower court's order pending a final decision on the merits of the constitutional complaint.