Maintenance Obligations: a Modern "Portrait" of the Alimony Debtor (in the case of Irkutsk region)
The article is devoted to the study of the institution of alimony obligations. The analysis of the reports on the activities of the Federal Bailiff Service for 2019-2020 made it possible to determine the range of urgent problems of fulfilling alimony obligations in Russia as a whole and in the Irkutsk Region in particular. The article presents a sociological portrait of a typical debtor evading alimony payments, examines the behavioral models of a person who avoids paying alimony payments, investigates the phenomenon of socially irresponsible parenting, makes a proposal to rationalize and modernize the systemic structure of social and legal impact on this category of people. The article concludes that the lack of awareness of the parents' duty to the child is difficult to solve only by the measures of the functioning legislation, namely by compulsory execution, therefore, it is necessary to form a public opinion condemning the lack of support for minor children from one of the parents.