Alimentary Agreement for Minors in Finland: Legal Specifications
A feature of Finnish family law is the adoption of an independent act regulating issues related to the payment of child support - the Child Support Act No. 704/1975. A significant part of this legislative act is devoted to the regulation of issues arising in connection with the conclusion of an alimentary agreement for minors. The Child Support Act provides for the procedure for concluding, changing and terminating an alimentary agreement for minors, as well as its enforcement, the key criteria on which the determination of the amount of alimony obligations is based, as well as its annual indexation (in more detail, these issues are also settled in other regulations of Finland and recommendations of the Ministry of Justice of Finland), etc. This article details the key aspects related to the functioning of an alimentary agreement for minors in Finland.