개정 양육비 이행확보 및 지원에 관한 법률의 주요 내용과 입법과제

The child-rearing should not be handled by only one parent, but both parents should cooperate to provide and support their children with a stable environment. In particular, the payment of child support of parent who doesn’t bring up children is very important because it is directly related to a child's right to life. Since it is difficult for children to lead their own lives unless their parents provide a healthy parenting environment, it is essential for parent who doesn’t bring up children to pay child support, which is the basis of the parenting environment. Despite the various existing child support systems, the low child support rate threatens the right of children to survive, and fathers or mothers who raise children have difficulty establishing a stable child support base. To improve this, a partial revision of the Act on Enforcing and Supporting Child Support Payment was proposed, and an alternative to the Women's and Family Commission, which combined the bill, passed the plenary session of the National Assembly on December 9, 2020, will be implemented on July 13, 2021. The revision of the Act on Securing and Supporting Child Support is mainly about banning child support debtors from leaving the country, disclosing personal information and criminal punishment. It is expected that this will be an effective means of securing the implementation of child support debtors by specifying sanctions against child support debtors who have defaulted on child support obligations. However, in order to increase the effectiveness of these sanctions, the following improvements must be made. First, the standard of child-rearing cost that can request a ban on departure should be lowered, and the reasons for lifting the ban on departure should be narrow. Second, the items regarding disclosure of the list should be revised, and the reasons for exclusion from the disclosure of the list should be narrowed. Third, the sentence for child support debtors should be strengthened and the method of reaching the detention order should be changed. In addition, through the introduction of a child support payment system, the state should support children who have not been paid child support until child support debtors meet their child support obligations so that children can live a healthy and stable life.