Contribution to a child’s maintenance is one of the obligations arising out of parental rights.
Contribution to maintenance
As a parent, you have an obligation to financially support your child’s everyday needs, for example, food, health care and education. You have an obligation to contribute to the child’s maintenance even if the other parent has separate exertion of parental rights or if your parental rights have been fully withdrawn.
If the other parent does not contribute to your child’s maintenance voluntarily, you may request that maintenance costs are collected by a court order. As a general rule, the court would order the payment of contributions to the child’s maintenance costs calculated in quotas from the parent’s overall income as set by the Family Code. Additionally, the share size of the child’s monthly financial maintenance obligation may be increased or decreased by the court, considering the material and the domestic state of the child’ parents, other important circumstances. In some situations, the court may establish a fixed amount of monthly child’s maintenance costs to be paid, as well decide application of a mixed calculation method (in quotas and fixed amount).
Read more about how to prepare and submit an application to the court under the Civil Procedure Code.
State support
The National Social Insurance Agency provides a certain amount of maintenance for a child through various types of payments as provided by the Law on state social benefits for children and the Government Decision on allowances for families with children.
Read more about state’s social payments for children you are entitled to and how to submit an application to the National Social Insurance Agency as provided under the Law on state social benefits for children and the Government Decision on allowances for families with children.
Length of decision-making & the Enforcement process
The effective protection of family life requires that issues regarding child maintenance should be determined as soon as possible. Proceedings regarding child maintenance should not be unnecessarily delayed by state institutions.
If the court has ordered the other parent to contribute to child maintenance, it is in your and your child’s interests for this decision to be enforced as soon as possible. A delayed enforcement procedure may violate your right to a fair trial and negatively affect the child’s interests. The use of effective sanctions against the other parent may be requested if he/she does not comply with the decision. Read more about the enforcement procedure in the Execution Code.