Authors : Martina Hedvicakova and Margareta Munsterova
Abstract: The present study analyses legal regulations concerning maintenance and current situation in the provision of maintenance in the Czech Republic. The article maps out terms like maintenance obligation, title to maintenance, process principles of non-dispute proceedings, fiction while calculating obligated parent’s income situation and overall property situation. Part two provides a comparison of the legal regulation of maintenance in selected countries of the European Union, especially, focussing on Belgium and France. These countries have been selected because they provide advance maintenance in case of failure to pay maintenance. Advance maintenance is currently being asserted in most advanced European countries. The Czech Republic as one of the last countries, provides neither advance nor compensatory satisfaction yet. This matter has now been discussed and made public in the media for several years in the Czech Republic but no positive progress has been achieved until now. The objective of the present study is to compare legal regulation in the particular countries. The analysis is mainly focused on the following areas: calculation of maintenance amount, valorisation of maintenance, minimum maintenance amount, advance maintenance.
Martina Hedvicakova and Margareta Munsterova, 2017. Parent’s Maintenance Obligation Towards Children and its Legal and Economic Aspects. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 8256-8260.