Alimony

Main article: Marriages and divorces in Russia

2023: Increase in the volume of alimony collected by 40% to 68 billion rubles

In 2023, the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) collected 68 billion rubles of alimony in favor of children, which is 40% more compared to 2022 (48 billion rubles). Such figures Minister of Justice Konstantin Chuichenko cited in January 2024.

Family law specialist Victoria Danilchenko linked the increase in alimony penalties with the inability to travel abroad with debts.

FSSP recovered 68 billion rubles of alimony in favor of children

In the presence of an SVO [special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine] in the country, this measure to close the borders turned out to be very effective. Due to the number of flights, the ability to fly anywhere has decreased, a very large arrival of alimony in 2023 was precisely in connection with these measures. They also began to look better, bailiffs began, as in films, to pretend to be buyers of cars, apartments in relation to the property that the debtor had. Thus, they began to identify serious financial injections, - said the expert on the air of the radio station "Moscow speaking."

In November 2023, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the creation of a register of debtors for the payment of alimony. The register was offered to include information about malicious defaulters who were brought to administrative or criminal liability, as well as about those who were put on the wanted list. The following information will be posted in the public domain: last name, first name and patronymic, date and place of birth, amount of outstanding debt, information on enforcement proceedings. The data will be publicly available until the day of repayment of the debt or until the end of enforcement proceedings.

As indicated in the explanatory note to the bill, by January 1, 2023, about 771,2000 proceedings for the collection of alimony were being executed by the FSSP. More than 150,000 debtors were wanted for non-payment of alimony or were prosecuted for this, that is, they are potential participants in the future register.^[1]

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