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How is maintenance calculated for children living in the city with their mother if their father is a member of a kibbutz?

By: דיאנה שאלתיאלPublished on: 16 May, 2022
A number of principles have been developed in the courts to calculate how much child maintenance a father living on a kibbutz should pay for his children if they live outside the kibbutz with their mother.
They are :
(a)The father’s financial capability to pay should be based on what he would earn if he worked outside the kibbutz rather than hiding behind the cloak of the kibbutz .
(b)The children’s standard of living should not be inferior to that of the father.
(c)The standard of living that the father owes if his (ex)spouse left the kibbutz for a justified reason should be equal to what she and the children would have had if they had remained on the kibbutz – but no more.
(d)The differences in standards of living between rich and poor kibbutzim should be taken into account
(e)The father could be expected to have more than one job, just like a father of several children who lived in the city, in order to support them.

 


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