Indeed, failure to pay alimony was an indictable offence under the Penal Code, while under civil law, the assets of a father who failed to pay child support could be confiscated to enforce such payment.

13.3 Maintenance from Parents

If the mother is indigent at the time of the mukhala ah or becomes so thereafter, the father shall be obliged to maintain the child and the mother shall be indebted to him.

Support for a child will be specified as a monthly support payment based on the financial situation of each parent and the needs of the child.

Alimentary pensions 492. Alimentary pensions are payable reciprocally

Shortly after independence the issue of maintenance became a major concern as many women started to complain of the difficulty securing maintenance from the fathers of their children, and about the inefficient operation of the maintenance courts, which fall under the legislation inherited from South Africa.

Ms. Belmihoub Zerdani suggested that the Government should set up a fund to cover the alimony and child support payments that former husbands failed to meet and then to track down the individuals concerned and withhold the relevant amount from their income.

If it is a condition of the mukhala ah that the husband should be exempt from payment of the cost of breastfeeding child or that the mother should keep and support the child for a specific period of time, and if the mother then subsequently remarries or leaves the child, the husband shall claim from the wife the equivalent of the sum for the breastfeeding or the maintenance of the child during the outstanding period.

The standard rate of maintenance is defined as the rate that is normally required to maintain a child who is in his mother apos s care given a simple standard of living (standard rate) as a rule, it is reduced by half of the child benefits payable for the child.

spouses, one of whom has been declared incompetent or of limited competence

A court has granted the minimum amount possible only in cases where the financial situation of the parent from whom maintenance is asked does not allow for more or when the parent asking for maintenance has not sufficiently substantiated the amount asked for.

This review focused on the extent to which parents fulfil their responsibilities to make child support payments and the consequences of the increasing diversity in the formation of families.

251. The maternity benefits payable to working women are taken into account when the child raising allowance is calculated.

Also worthy of note is the revision of article 227, introduced in 1989, which dealt with the offence of non payment of child support and included provisions defining the offence that did not protect children born out of wedlock.

However, when there is a surviving spouse or one or more dependent children, a lump sum of three months apos gross salary less staff assessment shall be paid to the surviving spouse and any dependent children, to be divided equally among those beneficiaries.

The child maintenance payable by the father shall not be offset against any debt owed to him by the woman holding custody.

The right to petition the court for alimony from a former spouse who has the necessary means to pay is held by the following

(iii) Motherhood and fatherhood allowances may be paid to single parents caring for children under 18 years of age.

The father should be accountable for all expenses related to the nurturing and education of the children.

Illegitimate children can thus claim at least the standard rate of maintenance.

For example, a court may consider it a good reason if a parent has another child who would be less financially secure than the child receiving support if such amount were ordered.

Women in both rural and urban areas use Maintenance Courts to secure their maintenance.

Subsidy for school children dependent on women heads of household

Alimony Payments

This also happens very often with mothers raising children (45.2 per cent) and for over 35 per cent of parents raising three or more children.

(d) Dependency allowances payable to eligible common system staff be reduced by the amount of any direct payments received from a Government in respect of dependants

The children s and secondary dependants allowances were expressed in a number of European currencies, and would thus be affected by the introduction of the Euro.

Women whose marriage is not registered with the State may petition the court to determine paternity and may request maintenance for the children of that marriage.

Encouraging all stakeholders to make every possible effort to achieve the objectives of the Tenth Anniversary of the International Year of the Family, to integrate a family perspective in planning and implementation processes within participatory governance, and to place family perspectives in the International Agenda,

In that same context, she noted that according to the previous report 40 per cent of former husbands failed to meet their alimony and child support obligations, often by concealing income and assets in order to simulate poverty (para.

The father is under obligation to maintain his children during the period of custody.

The Family Law required parents to provide for all children as long as they were minors or for a maximum of one year beyond that until secondary school graduation.

For children born as from 1 January 1993, the child raising allowance is paid for the first 24 months.

Adopted children are also entitled, provided they were adopted while contributions to the fund were being made.

If a parent fails to perform the duty to provide maintenance to a child, a court will, at the request of the other parent, guardian or guardianship authority, order support for the child to be paid to the parent who submitted the claim or to the guardian or person in whose interests the guardianship authority submitted the claim.

A court may refuse to order support or may reduce the amount to less than half of the minimum monthly wage or terminate payment of support if a parent ordered to pay the support is incapacitated for work, or a child has sufficient income, or other good reasons as established by the court become evident.

13.2 Maintenance Grants

The author claims that he did not pay child support for three years, which forced her to claim the support by going to the court and to the police, and that he has used this form of financial abuse as a violent tactic in addition to continuing to threaten her physically.

The exemption from the payment of contributions is limited to the receipt of child raising allowances, however.

The monthly support payment for one child shall not be less than half of the minimum monthly wage established by the Government of the Republic.

Parents are obliged to support their minor children, and if they refuse to do so, the money for supporting the children (maintenance) is collected from the parents by the court (art. 80 of the Family Code).

Persons who bring up a child with disabilities, who has not yet reached the age of 16, are granted an additional payment of the family state benefit.

Benefits payable to children whom the injured person was liable to maintain will cease when the child attains the age of 18, or 21 if the child is receiving training or education.

Raise children, love me.

The husband also had the final word on the upbringing of the children.