The Supreme Court (Armed Forces) of Russia listed valid reasons for non-payment of alimony: illness, non-payment of wages, conscription, bank error. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the resolutions of the plenum.
As the VS emphasizes, disagreement with the amount of alimony is not a valid reason (as well as cohabitation with the recipient of alimony). However, the amount of payments can be challenged in court.
The resolution also considers the issue of non-payment of alimony by convicts – here the courts must investigate in each specific case. In addition, citizens who only partially pay alimony are subject to administrative responsibility. Payments must be in full.
Earlier it became known that in the Leningrad region, Russian alimony workers will be forced to mow the cow parsnip for debts. The regional authorities allocated additional funds and attracted additional forces to eradicate the weed on their territory.
Bailiffs for 2020 collected alimony by 1.2 billion rubles more than a year earlier. In just 11 months of last year, 16.7 billion rubles were collected. The bailiffs managed to achieve the payment of alimony in 78.9 percent of cases of the total volume of enforcement proceedings.