The Senate is yet to assess the amendment. Under the bill, the debtors who live on welfare would receive lower benefits than the subsistence level.
Unpaid alimony would also become a priority debt in a company sale. The bill also allows for local authorities to help people claiming alimony file a complaint with court. The legislation was approved by a narrow majority of deputies in a repeated vote. The left-wing opposition rejected the bill. Social Democrat (CSSD) deputy Alena Curdova, shadow Czech Const Court abolishes three days of illness without fees ...
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Czech Social Democrats expel MP Snitily from party ... minister for the family and woman, pointed out that the legislation would not help solve the problem. She said the main part of the amendment, according to which courts would have power to ask banks, insurance companies and state bodies for data on alimony-defaulters was deleted from the bill. One of the three bill authors, senior ruling Civic Democrat (ODS) deputy David Kafka, did not object to the change, saying it is only a slight modification. Last year, the government coalition rejected the CSSD bill under which the state would cover alimony for some incomplete families. Labour and Social Affairs Minister Petr Necas (ODS) then argued that the government deputies had prepared a bill that would better solve problems with alimony collecting.
(Ceske Noviny)
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