Alimony for parents: how you can request it

The food quota, or foodis the payment that a father or a mother has to make periodically for the maintenance of their children, which is protected by Law 1098 of 2006.

This law highlights the obligations that parents must have to guarantee the integral development in childhood and adolescence of their children.

(Vice President Márquez’s flights amount to $2.8 billion).

“The food quota includes everything that is essential for sustenance, housing, clothing, medical assistance, recreation, education or instruction and, in general, everything necessary for the integral development of children and adolescents.“, explains the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF).

However, this condition can also fall on the income of your children, this with the aim of giving support to their parents for a series of very specific reasons.

(Pension: the allowance of people with less than a thousand weeks of contributions).

This case is developed in article 411 of the Colombian civil code, which lists the subjects who can benefit from maintenance payments.

In the same way, the legislation also refers to the fact that in the ararticles 251 and 252 of the Civil Codeexpresses the obligation of children to care for their parents when they are in special conditions, such as dementia or in any other circumstance where they need help from another person.

(Half of the households in the country consider that they are poor).

“Although emancipation gives the child the right to act independently, he is always obliged to care for the parents in their old age, in a state of dementia and in all life circumstances in which they need their help. -explains the article- All the other ascendants have the right to the same help, in case of non-existence or insufficiencies of the immediate descendants“.

According to the portal ‘Asuntos Legales’, “the state of need derived from an inability to procure their own support, the affiliation that unites them, the economic capacity of the child to provide food and the amount of basic needs to subsist must be accredited.r”.

(Supplementary plan: an option that provides additional health coverage).

Under this order of ideas, toboth parties must attend a conciliation hearing before a family lawyer or qualified jurists to give continuity and supervision to the case. instead, If an agreement cannot be reached, the case must go before a family judgewho will make the decision of what will be the percentages that the son must contribute to his parents.

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