Maintenance law: Giffey wants to make fathers legally better

fathers of separation of children to pay maintenance, even if the children are often with them. The wants to change family Minister Giffey. They justified their advance with the social reality.

Federal Minister for family Affairs Franziska Giffey wants to make the fathers of the separation of children legally better. The SPD-politician announced in the "New Osnabrücker Zeitung" reforms when it comes to maintenance.

It is not "that the father must continue to pay the full alimony, even if the child spends a lot of time with him, and even a private room with him." The right must be the social reality.

After a breakup wanted to deal with increasingly both parents to the child. "The fathers want to bear the responsibility for Education. And this is something Good," said Giffey. Therefore, there is a need for Changes in the maintenance law that allowed as much flexibility as possible for different models of Care.

A week here, a week there?

The SPD politician spoke out against demands for a so-called exchange model for the separation of children, whereby the child is supposed to spend a week with mother and one week with the father. "Some of the exchange model works well. For others, it is not possible, as there is every week a Drama." Each set of parents had to find the right way to do it. The state could impose no generally binding solution.

The family Minister also announced a Reform of the parental allowance. Although the proportion of men who were at home to their newborn babies has increased since the introduction of the parental allowance twelve years ago to over 35 per cent. But "the wheel continues to rotate, and with it the wishes and expectations of parents".

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