My children live with their mother on kibbutz. I live in the city and am not a member of the kibbutz . Do I have to support my children or is this the responsibility of the kibbutz?
By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 16 May, 2022A father bears the legal responsibility for supporting his children, even if someone else – here the kibbutz – does this in practice. So the Supreme Court held in the sixties in a case concerning a father and his maintenance obligation towards his children who were living with his ex-wife on kibbutz. The father was not a kibbutz member. He claimed that the kibbutz looked after the children’s every need and that, therefore, he was not legally bound to support them. His appeal was rejected.