As a rule, parents are obliged to provide maintenance to a child who is not yet able to support himself. Regardless of who the child stays with permanently, each parent should participate in its maintenance, and the increased personal efforts of the parent who takes care of the child on a daily basis are also treated as a kind of participation in its maintenance. The court may, for example, come to the conclusion that the mother fulfills most of her maintenance obligation by taking care of the children on a daily basis, i.e. preparing their meals, taking care of their hygiene, clean clothes, doing homework with them, taking them to school and activities. additional. This fact should be reflected in the proportions in which parents will contribute financially to meeting the needs of their children.

In principle, there should be equal participation in providing the child with the necessities of life. However, if one of the parents participates in the upbringing of the children to an incomparably greater extent, it is possible to vary the proportions of the parents’ financial contribution, e.g. 1/3 – 2/3 or 1/4 – 3/4.