Alimony obligations and additional parental expenses regarding children

Abstract

A wide range of issues, dedicated to identifying the problems and prospects for improving alimony obligations and additional expenses that are charged to the parent who lives separately from the child have been highlighted. The relevance of the study is due to the dynamic nature of judicial practice regarding the resolution of disputes over child support in court, the methods of such maintenance, the procedure for collecting alimony and its amount, the circumstances that are taken into account when collecting alimony and the evidence provided to confirm them, as well as taking into account the aforementioned circumstances when collecting additional expenses for the child. Therefore, conducting an analysis of the problems of collecting alimony and additional expenses for a child, with the determination of ways to improve them, becomes particularly relevant. The study has practical significance for the formation of proposals regarding the collection and submission of evidence in the specified area of legal relations when resolving disputes in court. This study is based on the hypothesis that with the development of civil relations, approaches to determining the methods and amount of alimony for minor, underage, and adult daughters (sons), defining the concept of additional expenses for a child, as well as the types of evidence regarding the confirmation of the presence or absence of grounds for satisfying claims in such category of cases, are changing. To verify and confirm this hypothesis, a system of general scientific and special legal methods of cognition was applied. The involvement of analytical methods, such as deduction, induction, and comparison, made it possible to outline the existing legal issues regarding the fulfilment of alimony obligations and the collection of additional expenses for a child. A systematic approach was applied to identify the interconnections between individual types of these legal relations. The formal-legal method was used as the basis for determining certain features of considering cases on the collection of alimony and additional expenses for a child in court. Based on the empirical method, the legal positions of the Supreme Court on the application of legal norms in alimony obligations and on additional expenses for a child when resolving disputes of this category by the courts of first and appellate instances were investigated. The forecasting method made it possible to outline the prospects for the development of the studied area of legal relations. The results obtained in the course of the conducted research confirmed the proposed hypothesis.