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Gov’t Measures Aim to Streamline Enforcement of Child Support Payment Evasion

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 [...]

S. Korea Makes It Easier to Impose Travel Bans on Deadbeat Parents

SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Ex-spouses failing to make child support payments to their divorced partners may have a travel ban imposed against them if payments are more than 30 million won (US$23,020) in arrears, down from 50 million won in the past. The Cabinet recently approved an amendment for the enforcement decree on [...]