On June 25^th 2025, the Law on Exercising Rights from the Alimony Fund came into power in the Republic of Serbia.

The Alimony Fund is a budgetary fund from which the right to maintenance will be exercised by children whose parent (although legally obligated by an enforceable document, i.e., a final and enforceable court judgment) fails to pay alimony for at least two consecutive months.

Funding for the Alimony Fund will be provided from the budget of the Republic of Serbia and from donations, while the management of the fund falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry for Family Protection. The payment procedure from the Alimony Fund is regulated by only a few legal provisions and involves the public enforcement officer initiating the payment process from the fund, this is done once it has been determined that enforcement cannot be carried out from the debtor’s property – with the consent of the child as the alimony creditor. The amount paid from the Alimony Fund in this manner cannot exceed the minimum maintenance amount determined by family law. These provisions also apply to enforcement procedures initiated before this Law came into power.

A more detailed analysis of legal consequences of the implementation of this Law compared to previously applicable regulations, as well as a comparison of the effects of similar laws in neighboring countries, is available on our website in the related article.