Pay Your Dues: Expanding Tools for Enforcing Child Support Obligations

The Russian Federation is a social welfare state with policies that aim to create an environment where people can lead decent lives. Protecting the rights of members of society who, due to age or health, are unable to provide for themselves financially is a priority focus of state policy. Child support is a key mechanism for ensuring that they receive decent allowances. What has already been done to make the collection of child support more efficient? Why do we need a publicly available register of persons who are required to pay child support and what is the outlook for its compilation? What positive international experience in collecting child support is transferable to Russia’s realities? What problems hinder the timely and full collection of child support? How can deadbeat parents be motivated to fulfil their obligations?