SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting next month, South Korea will strengthen its child support advance payment system to prevent delinquent parents from evading enforcement by making only partial payments, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said Tuesday. The program, launched in July 2024, allows the government to provide unpaid child support directly [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is set to introduce swifter penalties for non-custodial parents who defy court orders to pay child support, including travel bans and driver’s license suspensions if the amount in arrears is over 30 million won or they are delinquent on more than three payments. The Ministry of Gender Equality [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is reviewing the idea of revising the law to enable criminal punishment against non-custodial parents who intentionally avoid paying child support without a court detention order. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family deliberated and resolved the basic plan established together by related ministries at the society-related [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Ex-spouses who fail to make child support payments have been banned from leaving the country when the unpaid amount reaches a certain limit. Now, the limit will become even lower. The Ministry of Gender and Equality said Wednesday that a newly amended Enforcement Decree of the Act on Enforcing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has revealed a list of people who have failed to pay child support after divorce for the first time. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family unveiled the names of two people on its official website on Sunday who have failed to make child support payments to [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The identities of all child support debtors will be disclosed under a revised law that goes into effect next week, the government said Tuesday, with exceptions applying to missing or bankrupt people. A revised law on the forcible identity disclosure for parents with child support debt was approved by [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — On Wednesday, the Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations, a provider of free legal consultation services, unveiled statistics and analysis on the legal aid it extended last year with respect to lawsuits to secure child support payments. Among the 151 cases of legal aid, the number of lawsuits [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The operator of a website that exposes the identity of parents refusing to pay child support was found not guilty of defamation by a Seoul court on Thursday. The Seoul Western District Court acquitted Kang Min-seo of defamation charges over disclosing a man’s personal information on the website, Bad [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Bad Fathers’ is a website well-known for exposing the names and pictures of men failing to provide child support after divorce. The website recently faced a complaint that exposing an individual’s personal information solely upon reports from a person with child custody, without proper review of the intent to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Public attention is focused on whether on whether actual punishment will be meted out as a man who has been accused of failing to pay child support is under police investigation. Seoul’s Dongdaemun Police Station is investigating a case against a man accused of joint injury and violation of [...]