Child support and spouse’s direct ascendants

Child support constitutes family law institute aiming to contribute to education and wellbeing of children within the context of unsuccessful marriage. Child support is a corner stone of divorce or separation procedures and it is the natural extension of a landmark principle: the interest of the child. In fact, according to this parameter, children shall […]

Italian Child support and exempted taxation

In the context of marriage, children education and support constitute paramount pillars of familiar cohabitation. These duties cover the marriage or the eventual separation and divorce. Subsequently, children wellbeing is legal priority for Italian Family Law.   Child support takes place when both spouses decided to terminate their cohabitation through a consensual or non-consensual separation. […]

Child support in Italy: when is it objectively impossible?

According to Italian Family Law, child support is a periodic payment made by a spouse for the financial benefit of a child following the end of a marriage or other type of relationship. The most relevant aspect is that child support priority is child’s wellbeing and his support after the end of a marriage or […]

Failure to pay alimony in Italy

child custody

According to the Italian Law, parental responsibility encompass various form of psychological and economic assistance. Important to notice, the same assistance schemes also apply in case of separation or divorce proceedings or marriage annulment. Therefore, parental responsibility duties consist in moral, psychological, and economic assistance in the context of familiar environment with or without an […]

Quantification of child maintenance in Italy

According to the art. 337 ter, section 4 of Civil Code, child maintenance first criteria is the so called direct maintenance. In such case, the economic assistance is not mediated by the provision of a periodical cheque. On the contrary, the spouse directly satisfies child’s needs and expectations with the purpose of establishing a collaborative […]