At least 99 thousand orders for the recovery of alimony have been issued by Ukrainian courts over the past 5 years, according to the court registry search engine Babusya. A court order for the recovery of alimony is a simplified court decision (without long hearings) that allows you to officially collect alimony without spending years in court. Most of these orders were issued in 2021 – 27,251 orders. Thus, 12,714 orders were issued in 8 months of 2024. More than 13% of them were issued in Dnipropetrovska oblast this year.
The number of court orders for the recovery of alimony in Ukraine is gradually decreasing. 99,909 such decisions were issued by courts from 2021 to August 2025. The largest number of such decisions was recorded in 2021 – 27,251 orders. However, in 2024, their number decreased by a quarter to 20,504.
12,714 orders were issued by Ukrainian courts in the first 8 months of 2025. This is 6% less than in the same period last year and 28% less than in 2021.
“The main advantage of writ proceedings is their efficiency: you quickly receive a court decision, which is also an enforcement document – the law provides for 5 days for this, and you can submit it for execution. In contrast, a court hearing in a lawsuit may take from several weeks to several months. At the same time, the main disadvantage of this method of collecting alimony is that the amount of alimony in writ proceedings is strictly limited by law,” says Judge Petro Tyshkun.
This year, the most frequent cases of alimony enforcement are in Dnipropetrovska oblast: 1,654 decisions were issued there, which is 13% of the total number in the country. This is followed by Odesa region with 948 orders (8%), Kharkiv region with 837 (7%), Kyiv region with 810 (6%), and Lviv region with 772 (6%). Together, these five regions account for almost 40% of all court orders in Ukraine this year.
It is worth noting that we are talking about the number of orders issued, not about the execution and actual payment of money – that is, only those cases where the court has already issued a document that can be submitted to the executive service.
“An application for a court order is easier to prepare than a full-fledged lawsuit, and it saves the claimant’s time and resources. However, it is important to understand that the order cannot recover additional expenses for the child, but only half of the subsistence minimum for the child or a share of the income, and in a limited amount. If the child needs additional expenses, then in such cases you will still have to file a lawsuit,” notes Asters partner Talina Kravtsova.
It is worth reminding that more than 187 thousand child support debts are currently listed in the Unified Register of Debtors.
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