Assertion of maintenance claims Advice and support

If the other parent does not provide maintenance, you can receive support from the conservatorship and seek advice on how to proceed.

Parents are obliged to provide maintenance for their children. If a parent does not live with his child in a household, he is obliged to pay maintenance through monetary payments. However, this parent does not always do this. There can be various reasons for this. For those affected, the question arises as to how they can proceed here.

A child has a legal right to maintenance. The Youth Welfare Office, in the form of conservatorship, can advise children and their affected parents and support them in asserting their claim.

For example, the conservatorship can help to determine the amount of maintenance payments and possibly also create a title with which the maintenance can be foreclosed.

However, the means to be initiated are always individual and can be discussed in a personal conversation.

The responsibility lies with the Youth Welfare Office.

Advice/Support/Conservatorship

• Applicant's identity card
• Account details, if applicable
• Birth certificate of the child
• Furthermore, all documents that may already exist (such as letter from a lawyer, maintenance order, etc.) are helpful.

• Forms: none
• Online procedure possible: no
• Written form required: no
• Personal appearance necessary: yes, in most cases

• Children up to the age of 21 receive counselling.

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Advice, support, conservatorship:

• The conservatorship can be set up in person or applied for by means of a written application.
• A personal interview makes sense. For this purpose, an appointment is arranged, which usually lasts 30 to 60 minutes.

A child (and the parent with whom he lives) receives advice and support from the conservatorship until the age of 21.

After a personal consultation (about 30 to 60 minutes), the processing usually takes place immediately. The duration may vary in individual cases.

There are no costs.

In addition to the maintenance conservatorship, the Youth Welfare Office can also be used as a conservator for a paternity determination. If the parents of a child are not married, paternity must be acknowledged. If the affected father refuses, a conservatorship can be set up for the child concerned at the Youth Welfare Office. The adviser informs and advises about the upcoming steps. He seeks recognition of paternity and represents the child in court proceedings in order to adequately enforce his rights. The conservatorship is a free offer of the Youth Welfare Office.

The conservatorship can be set up in person or applied for by means of a written application. A written application to the Youth Welfare Office is sufficient.

The following are eligible to apply:

• the parent who has sole parental authority,
• in the case of parents who have joint parental authority, the parent with whom the child lives;
• the expectant mother (or her representative if the mother is legally incapacitated) if the child has not yet been born

• A personal interview makes sense. For this purpose, an appointment is arranged, which usually lasts 30 to 60 minutes.