A Eurovision winner could be forced to pay out maintenance to her estranged dad under a new law.

Lena Meyer-Landrut represented Germany in the 2010 contest in Oslo when she was just 18.

She is the second and last German to win the competition since it began in 1956, and won 28 years after the country's last victory.

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She has since released five studio albums, done voice-over work and is a judge on the German version of The Voice Kids.

The singer is worth an estimated £3.8million but under new law brought in this year could be forced to shell out maintenance to her father, who left the family when she was just two.

The legislation states wealthy children who earn more than £84,800 a year have an obligation to care for their parents when they are unable to provide for themselves.

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Lena’s dad Ladislas Meyer-Landrut, 57, has had bankruptcy proceedings filed against him at the Bonn District Court by 16 creditors demanding around £313,000, reports BUNTE.de.

Ladislas is believed to have left the family home in Hanover to move to Bonn 26 years ago and was estranged from the pop star until she was announced as the German entry for Eurovision 10 years ago.

In an interview to German tabloid Bild before the contest he would not contact his daughter but that a place is “always free on his table”.

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The musician and former pilot, who is the son of Andreas Meyer-Landrut, a Baltic German-born West German ambassador to the Soviet Union in Moscow, is said to have retired early and is receiving unemployment benefits.

Lena has remained tight-lipped on the subject of her father but in June 2017 released a song about the relationship called "If I Wasn't Your Daughter”.