Determination of the Amount of Minor Children Support in Court

. International instruments and Russian legislation treat the right of the child to care and material support as the priority rights. In real life, this right is not always ensured. More than two million children in Russia do not receive child support. It is necessary to work on the further strengthening of legal safeguards for minor children left without sufficient support. The establishment of a minimum size of child support collected in favor of minors will eliminate the instances of unjustified reduction of the child support amount. The author considers erroneous the judicial practice aimed at determining the amount of child support in accordance with the debtor's obligation to support other children. The paper justifies a differentiated approach to determining the rates applied to calculate the amount of child support based on a regressive scale depending on the income of the debtor. Based on international law and Russian legislation concerning the priority of the rights and interests of minor children, it is proposed to provide for the possibility of compensating the amounts unpaid by debtors from state funds in the Russian family legislation. It is unacceptable to limit the right of adult children, who had the right to child support, to recover penalties when such claims are made after the expiry of a three-year period from the moment when they reach the age of majority.

Family Law, child support, protection, minors, safeguards, minimum size, penalty, income, regressive scale, profit, parents

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