Vučić's idea about the Alimony Fund arrived on the eve of March 8, but it is not new - the opposition has been talking about it for years. How the Alimony Fund will function in practice
After pandering to rebellious students with youth apartments, the government's marketing campaign shifted to a new idea, which was announced, symbolically, on the eve of International Women's Day.
This time, it is about the establishment of the Alimony Fund, which he announced personally the president of the country.
"We will go with the proposal of the Law on Alimony Fund in case you have a man who does not understand that he has to be at least an elementary gentleman." I'm proud that we're passing such a law, I'm proud of it because I know we're doing a lot to women who don't even have time to take care of their children, they can't get everywhere, and they have to complain to their ex-spouse and his lawyers," said Vučić at the rally held in Sava Center on the occasion of International Women's Day.
What is the Alimony Fund announced by Vučić and how will it function?
Temporary measure
The alimony fund would represent a fund from which children whose parent - even though he is obliged to do so by an enforceable document, i.e. a legally binding and enforceable court judgment - would not pay child support for at least two consecutive months.
The right to temporary support would last until the age of 18, that is, until the parent begins to fully fulfill the obligation of support.
By the way, the existence of such a fund has already been introduced into the Croatian and Montenegrin legislation, while the introduction of an alimony fund would be a novelty for the domestic legal system.
Avoidance of alimony payments
According to the data of the Republic Institute of Statistics, more than 9.000 marriages are divorced in Serbia every year, of which over 5.000 involve children.
As RTS previously wrote, according to some estimates, only a third of divorced fathers, or three quarters of mothers, regularly pay monthly allowances.
Failure to pay maintenance is a criminal offense punishable by a fine or up to three years in prison. However, practice shows that such procedures often take a long time, and maintenance debtors use various ways to avoid the obligation - they hide property, real estate, resign, so that the executors could not carry out the confiscation. The debts are up to one million dinars, writes RTS.
Imprisonment is rarely used. For example, in 2021, 1.795 criminal charges were filed for non-payment of alimony, and 123 people ended up in prison.
However, a prison sentence cannot provide financial support to a child at a time when it is needed. This is how the idea of the Alimony Fund was born, from where child support would be paid instead of the parent who does not respect his legal and judicial obligation, and this fund would then be refunded from the parent who was obliged to fulfill the obligation to provide support, but did not do so.
Opposition proposal
It is interesting, however, that the President of Serbia is talking about the proposal of the Law on the Alimony Fund, and it arrived in the Serbian Parliament in July 2024 - as a proposal of the opposition, which has been talking about this solution for years.
The representative of the proponent was MP Marinika Tepić of the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP), and the proposal was signed by 30 MPs of the opposition. Among them, in addition to the SSP, are also members of the Serbia Center parliamentary group, as well as the Environmental Uprising.
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