Changes in the legislation on recovery of alimony 2018
On February 2017 the Vekhovna Rada of Ukraine
passed and transferred on a signature of President of Ukraine the Law No7277 dated 10 November 2017
The Law provides the following changes:
- The simplification of procedure of establishing the temporary restriction on rights of the debtor to travel outside Ukraine.
In the event of existence maintenance debts of debtor in the amount that exceeds the total amount of the corresponding payments for six months, executor will be obliged to impose a temporary restriction on the right to travel outside Ukraine
- Implementation of new tools of compulsory execution of judgment to the debtor.
To the debtor, who has the maintenance debts in the amount that exceeds the total amount of the corresponding payments for six months can be apply the following restrictions:
-on right of vehicle driving;
– on right of use gunshot hunting, pneumatic and hunting weapons; devices of domestic manufacture for shooting bullets equipped with rubber or similar to missiles non-lethal effect.
- Implementation of new type of administrative penalty in the form of social work
The debtor in the event of convicted him of an administrative offense, can be brought to socially useful works, the type of which will be determined by local government authority.
- The release of applicants from payment of court fee of filling an application for court order on recovery of alimony.
It is envisaged that the parent with whom the child lives by the judgment, independently decide the issue of temporary departure of the child from outside Ukraine with the purpose of treatment, the child’s education abroad, rest, in the presence of a official document issued by the government executive authority on the existence of debt of the maintenance payment, the total amount that exceeds the amount of the corresponding payments for six months.
This Law is entering into force following signing by the President and after 3 months from the date of its publication, except for particular clauses.