Countries: Cote D'Ivoire
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"The grandmothers become sole breadwinners, toiling in fields in heat and dirt. It’s hard to imagine the physical toll as well as the impact on their emotional and psychological wellbeing as they again feed and raise children, but without the vitality of their youth"(para 7). This quote shows that in this society their is no child support (EV-Coder Comment). "'I get up at 5am, and begin by sweeping the yard and continue to work all day until 9pm without a moment’s rest. I constantly worry about my grandchildren. We’re really close, I worry about them when they’re out of sight. I also think about my children and wonder how they...more

Countries: South Korea
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

“The ministry currently accounts for just 0.2% of the government's budget but women say it has made a concrete difference to their lives. Since it was established more than 20 years ago it has… secured more generous child support payments for single mothers” (para 20). "All but two of the employees on Shin's team are women, who all started working for the company after having children. Two in their 30s joined this year, citing almost identical circumstances to the ones Shin experienced two decades ago” (para 31). The women working on this contract-work team had to leave previous jobs due to insufficient childcare opportunities. Childcare responsibilities seem to fall to...more

Countries: Maldives
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1, CUST-LAW-3

"In this reporting period, there is clear evidence of the Magistrates Courts taking the issue of Child Allowance payments seriously, and a system has been established whereby any man owing child allowance must pay this off before being permitted to enter into another marriage contract. If the man moves to a different island to marry, the Magistrates Court of that island will contact authorities on his home island to see if there are any outstanding Child Allowance payments. Since January 2012, any person wishing to marry more than one person should earn at least Rf 15,000 (approximately USD $975)." (35).

Countries: Nicaragua
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"The maintenance conciliation service offered by the Ministry is an alternative to judicial dispute settlement and an expeditious, free, flexible, accessible and legally enforceable option. A nationwide automated maintenance payments system has been in place since 2017 and processes more than 29,820 child support payments. " (8). "With regard to child support, the care and upbringing of children, and contact and visiting arrangements, the Ministry of Family, Youth and Children’s Affairs has trained 361 civil servants as family conciliators. As a result, 55,776 children and young people have recovered their right to child support payments. An automated single maintenance payments system serves to expedite those payments. It currently processes 29,820...more

Countries: Montenegro
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"Non-payment of alimony puts single-parent families into a crisis that is further worsened in situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, because parents lose their jobs, have lower income and their livelihoods are threatened. Many parents do not want to provide financial support to their children after a divorce, and no adequate mechanism has yet been found in the legislation to force such parents to pay alimony...During the year 2019 and until August 31, 2020, the courts in Montenegro imposed a total of 203 sanctions on parents who did not pay alimony, whereby 43 people were sent to prison for non-payment of child support, and six were sentenced to house arrest"...more

Countries: Nicaragua
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"This was soon followed by, 'the Law Regulating Relations Between Mothers, Fathers and Children [1981]...which created equal rights over children for both parents; and the Law of Nurturing [1982] which obliged all men to contribute to their children’s upkeep and to do their share of household tasks' (Collinson et al, 1990)" (para 13) (NF - CODER COMMENT - Being that there was no prior law enforcing men to pay child support, it is highly likely that any form of child support was done through informal channels or was not done at all).

Countries: Kenya
Variables: ADCM-PRACTICE-1, CUST-PRACTICE-1

"The court ruled that fathers who sire children out of wedlock must have equal parental responsibility as mothers"(39).

Countries: India
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"Sarbjeet Kaur’s husband stopped sending money for his daughter’s school fees in 2016, with three months left in the term. Sarbjeet sold her sofa and two cupboards so she could finish. Last year, she sold the gold earrings her parents had given to her daughter – again, for school fees, this time at her new, cheaper school" (Para 63-64).

Countries: Poland
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"The failure to pay for the support of a next of kin was a crime laid down in the Penal Code (art. 209(1)). It was subject to a fine, the penalty of restriction of liberty or the penalty of deprivation of liberty for up to two years. If a debtor did not perform any payable work and did not possess any tangible property that could be used to exact payment of debts, the person entitled to support could take legal action to obtain maintenance payments from the debtor’s family. In the event the enforcement proved ineffective, the child entitled to support payments from its parent could apply for financial assistance...more

Countries: Armenia
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"Even if the mother is granted custody, such orders may be difficult to enforce. For example, in 2015, a domestic violence survivor was granted custody of her son after taking her former spouse to court. Despite being granted custody, the custody exchange still has not been enforced by the Department of Child Custody and her rights continue to be violated" (44).

Countries: Lebanon
Variables: ATDW-PRACTICE-2, CUST-PRACTICE-1, IAW-PRACTICE-1

"Discrimination includes inequality in access to divorce, child custody, and inheritance and property rights" (para 17).

Countries: North Korea
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"In the whole procedures of receiving, investigating and hearing divorce cases the court finds out about which of the husband and wife should take custody of children and which is in the best interest of the children concerned, and gives ruling by taking into full account the views of both parties. The principle adhered to in this regard is to place a child under three years of age in the custody of the mother. The party that has no custody of children is under obligation to pay the expenses for the upbringing of the children within the range of 10-30 per cent of his/her monthly income until they reach working...more

Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1, CUST-LAW-3

"Uganda’s penal code does prohibit abandoning and failing to support children. But Ms. Animbou said she never went to the Ugandan base or the local authorities to report the soldier. 'They don’t want to talk about this, even with the authorities,' said Mr. Daba, adding that some women were threatened by Ugandan soldiers. 'The U.P.D.F. said they will do something bad to them — kill them or something else.'" (para 27-28).

Countries: Congo
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"Bantu men often impregnated indigenous girls and later denied paternity, offering no child support" (26).

Countries: Yemen
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"Under family law and inheritance law, courts awarded custody of children over a specified age (seven years for boys and nine years for girls) to the divorced husband or the deceased husband’s family" (38).