Contribution to a child’s maintenance is one of the obligations arising out of parental custody rights (parental care).
Contribution to maintenance
As a parent, you have an obligation to financially support your child’s everyday needs, for example, food, health care and education, in accordance with your abilities. You have an obligation to contribute to the child’s maintenance (payment of alimony) even if the other parent has separate custody or if your custody rights have been fully withdrawn.
Read more about issues regarding financial maintenance in the Family Code.
If the other parent does not contribute to your child’s maintenance voluntarily, you may request that maintenance costs are collected by a court order. The court may order the splitting of contributions to the child’s maintenance costs proportionally to each parent’s financial means. In any case, a child’s monthly financial maintenance must cover the cost of the child's living needs, in particular the cost of living, food, clothing, footwear, care, education, upbringing, leisure, entertainment and other special needs. Read more about how to prepare and submit an application to the court under the Contentious Civil Procedure Act.
State support
The Maintenance Fund of the Republic of Slovenia provides maintenance for a child to the minimum amount where the court determined alimony cannot be collected from the child’s parent.
The child is entitled to maintenance compensation if the enforcement procedure to collect the determined alimony has been unsuccessfully completed or if the enforcement procedure lasts more than three months.
Read more about how to submit an application to the Maintenance Fund.
Length of decision-making & the Enforcement process
The effective protection of family life requires that issues regarding child maintenance should be determined as soon as possible. Proceedings regarding child maintenance should not be unnecessarily delayed by state institutions.
If the court has ordered the other parent to contribute to child maintenance, it is in your and your child’s interests for this decision to be enforced as soon as possible. A delayed enforcement procedure may violate your right to a fair trial and negatively affect the child’s interests. The use of effective sanctions against the other parent may be requested if he/she does not comply with the decision. Read more about the enforcement procedure in the Enforcement and Security Act.