Practical Problems and Effectiveness of Law Enforcement in the Consideration of Cases of Alimony Obligations by Courts in the Soviet Period: Historical and Legal Research

Such an institution of family law as alimony obligations has come a long way of formation and development: from mention in Russian Pravda to the present. However, as legal scholars point out, it was during the Soviet era that the foundations of legal regulation of marital and family relations that are in force today were formed.
Despite the rather high level of elaboration of Soviet legislation in the studied area, law enforcement agencies often faced problems of implementing regulatory requirements in practice: these are issues of determining the amount of payments and the existence of actual circumstances for payments, the execution of decisions made (including in case of loss of writ of execution), and even the search for defendants in the case. The courts were an active participant in the proceedings in the category of cases under consideration: on their initiative, the process of considering an alimony dispute could begin, the court could make a decision on the defendant’s drive, and decided many procedural issues. In practice, the contribution of the judiciary to the development of modern legislation on alimony obligations is no less than the activities of legislative bodies.
It is the activities of Soviet courts in the context of resolving problematic issues of alimony that is the subject of this study.