Krasvitna T. Obligations of Spouses for Maintenance in Family Law

The author of the dissertation has substantiated that the obligations of spouses for maintenance are a special type of civil obligations and are legal relations, when one of the spouses (the payer) is obliged to give the second spouse (the recipient) the maintenance in specie or kind, and the recipient of the maintenance has the right to demand the payer to fulfill the obligations. It has been argued that the spouse has the right to enter into maintenance agreements and contracts, where the provision of maintenance is one of the conditions of an agreement aimed at satisfying the needs of a person in care and maintenance (rent, life maintenance (care), an inheritance agreement, etc.). It has been substantiated that the main form of liability of one of the spouses for alimony in arrears for the maintenance of the second spouse is a legal forfeit (penalty).