Relatives of alimony debtors must pay for them

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In Russia, alimony debtors who do not want to pay money to their children resort to various tricks, in particular, hiding their property by transferring it to relatives. Meanwhile, the total debt for alimony to children already exceeds 150 billion rubles, with 83% of alimony debtors being men and 17% being women.

This means that measures that should stimulate dishonest parents are not effective enough. Therefore, collecting money from close relatives of the alimony payer, with the help of which the debtor evades payments, can become an effective measure. Why Russians continue to evade alimony and how to change this - in the material .We need to fight alimony debtors like we fight corrupt officials

Only interdepartmental control, acting on the principle of combating corruption, will solve the problem with debtors, suggests the head of the movement "For Women's Rights in Russia" Lyudmila Aivar. It is necessary to identify the property of the alimony payer, which is registered to his relatives or trusted persons, so that he does not have the opportunity to pretend to be poor and pretend that he has nothing to take for the benefit of the child.

Debtors should be restricted in their civil rights

A registry of alimony debtors, which should be up and running in 2025, will help influence unscrupulous parents, says Tatyana Butskaya. "Even at the stage of discussing the law on creating such a registry, the number of those who did not pay alimony began to decrease literally before our eyes," she says. "Because it's one thing when you quietly run away from your own child. It's another thing when this information is in open sources, and your employers can find out about it." Incidentally, today about 113 thousand Russians are at risk of being included in this registry.

But Alexander Safonov, a professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, disagrees with Butskaya. "Many debtors hide their income and are not officially employed. "They already have informal relations with their employers," says Safonov. "And the employer absolutely does not care what list a person is on. There is no employment contract. This does not affect their rights in any way."

And in order for alimony payers not to shirk their responsibilities, a new law must be introduced, Safonov is sure. "For example, a ban on purchasing a car, a ban on purchasing real estate. So that even the registration of transactions involving these people is not carried out." And if this does not help, then there may be restrictions related to the implementation of other civil rights, the professor believes. "Only in this case will the consequences force a person to change," he believes.

Why alimony debtors escape criminal liability

According to the law, the punishment for failure to pay alimony looks quite impressive: if you don’t pay for two months, you are subject to administrative liability; if you don’t pay again, you are subject to criminal liability. But if the debtor hides his income, works unofficially, and does not own any property on paper, it becomes almost impossible to hold him accountable, says Diana Khalitova, a member of the Association of Lawyers of Russia. The law also doesn’t work in cases where the alimony defaulter hides from the bailiffs, constantly changing his place of residence. “The bailiffs’ job is to bring the debtor to court,” explains Alexandra Marova, a lawyer and head of the non-profit organization “Childhood Defenders.” “If the bailiffs don’t do this, the court has the right not to consider the case. So the guilty walk around as innocent.”



As you can see comrade the foid used the system in russia to collect alimony from relatives . the turbulent times for us are coming . we must be ready to flee the country if they propose such laws