The woman has been demanding child support from her ex-husband for almost 17 years. (Schematic/Pixabay)
In a rare alimony lawsuit in mainland China’s Shanghai recently, a woman filed an enforcement request with the court because she was unhappy with her ex-husband’s delay in paying her daughter 500 yuan (about NT$2,238) in maintenance a month, and filed a lawsuit for his 17 years of support. The girl’s half cost RMB 230,000 (about NT$ 1.04 million).
According to a “Sohu News” report, the woman and her ex-husband agreed in their divorce settlement in 2004 that the man would pay 500 yuan a month for child support until the girl was 18 years old. However, the woman accused her ex-husband’s long-term employment outside the home, which caused her daughter’s education and living expenses to be mostly paid for her. Based on financial difficulties, the man hopes to wait until has enough money to pay child support, which makes it impossible for the woman to file a lawsuit and apply for enforcement.
The woman also calculated that she would spend RMB 464,595 (about NT$2.05 million) in child support in the nearly 17 years before her daughter came of age, so she asked her ex-husband to pay half the amount of RMB 232,297.50 (about NT$1.04 million). However, after the trial, the judge said that the content of the woman’s complaint was “more than the divorce agreement” without the man’s consent, and he could not prove that it included meals, travel, school uniform, accommodation, activity fees extra-curricular, competition course fees, competition examination fees, training fees, Necessity and reasonableness of medical fees, insurance fees and glasses fees, the woman’s appeal was dismissed.
The judge pointed out that if the payment is more than the amount agreed in the divorce agreement, the supporting party should notify it and get the consent of the other party before it can take effect. -her husband must pay the alimony according to the agreement.
