양육비 채무 이행률 제고를 위한 몇 가지 제언

Abstract

Every child support policy aims to promote the welfare of children and reduce the financial burden on the government caused by single-parent families in poverty by securing timely child support payments. To timely child support, the following three steps must operate properly: 1) encouraging child support debtors to fulfill their obligations voluntarily, 2) ensuring that measures for child support enforcement work effectively in cases of deadbeat parents, and 3) making sure that child support payments of a certain amount or more are secured on time, even if the debtors do not perform their debts. This paper suggests several measures to improve the rate of child support payments at each stage. Firstly, internal compliance should be strengthened through counseling and persuasion from the initial stage of default. It is also important to identify the main reasons for default through monitoring and provide customized support programs. Secondly, external compliance should be strengthened through enhancing the effectiveness of fines and detention. Particularly, the detention prioritization must be abolished, as it is a major obstacle to requesting the suspension of a driver's license, prohibiting departure, and to disclosing the list of delinquent parents. Thirdly, a child support payment system should be established to ensure support for every child, regardless of the income level of the debtor or creditor. Prior to this, it is necessary to give the Korean Child Support Agency the authority to investigate the property of debtors without their consent from the early stages.