Maintenance / Child Support

Yes, possibly. In a ruling from October 6^th, 2024, the Family Court in the Krayot ordered the mother to refund the father for all the child support payments he made during a year for their daughter who moved in with her boyfriend a year before and no longer lived with her mother (Family Case # 61250-05-22).

Yes! If your daughter no longer lives with your ex-wife (her mother), then it is likely that the Family Court will rule that you no longer have to pay child support, despite your divorce agreement. The Family Court in the Krayot gave a ruling in a similar case and cancelled the father’s obligation to pay child support to his daughter who moved in with her boyfriend and ruled that it was established and proven that the mother is no longer required to financially support the daughter’s needs (case # 61250-05-22).

Yes! This is a notable change in circumstances, which justifies compensation as ruled by the Hadera Family Court in Hadera on January 8^th 2025. The Court there found that considering the time that the child spends with the mother’ the length of the reserve service by the father, the age of the minor, and the change of circumstances that the father will add and pay to the mother for the child 500 NIS for every month of reserve service where no visitation of the father with the minor takes place.

Yes! The fact that visitation time between the children and their father has ceased is a major change of circumstances, which justifies increasing child maintenance even temporarily (before final decision), as ruled in a similar situation by The District Court in Haifa on December 12^th, 2024 (Leave of Appeal Case # 9721-07-24). There, the mother appealed the Family Court’s decision, and The District Court consequently tripled the temporary monthly payments of child maintenance that the Father was ordered to pay by The Family Court.

Yes! You should file for a leave of appeal at the District Court and ask to cancel the Family Court’s interim decision. You should attach relevant documentation regarding your child monthly needs. For example, The District Court in Tel Aviv, tripled the temporary child support, that the Family Court awarded, and ruled that the father’s claims about parental alienation were not founded and that the fact that the father had previously paid the same low amount to the mother is not grounds for awarding such a low amount of temporary monthly child support (case # 21299-12-24)