Legal Protection of Children's Rights to Sufficiency After Divorce Based on Justice

Andi Dwina Isfani

Abstract


Legal protection for post-divorce child supports rights needs to be examined because divorce only ends the legal relationship between husband and wife, but does not eliminate the parents' obligation to meet the needs of life, education, health, and child development. This study aims to analyze legal protection, weaknesses in regulations and implementation, and the ideal formulation of post-divorce child support rights protection based on the value of justice. The research method used is normative legal research with a statutory approach, using secondary data through literature studies and documentary studies analyzed qualitatively with a deductive thinking pattern. The results show that post-divorce child support rights are guaranteed in the Marriage Law, the Compilation of Islamic Law, the Child Protection Law, the 1945 Constitution, and the principle of child protection that places the best interests of the child as the primary basis. The father's obligation to finance the maintenance and education of children remains inherent even after the marriage has ended, while the mother still has a role in the care and education of children. This protection has not been optimally implemented because there are still weaknesses in the legal substance, legal structure, and legal culture, especially regarding the amount of support, payment timing, payment method, adjustment to the child's needs, supervision of decisions, and legal consequences for negligent parties. The weakness of legal culture is evident in the persistent view that child support is assistance to the ex-wife, not a child's right that parents must fulfill. The ideal formulation of legal protection for children's right to support after divorce needs to be realized through a clear, measurable, directly enforceable determination of support through a court decision, and reflecting the values of certainty, benefit, and justice for children.


Keywords


Children; Legal; Protection; Support.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/rlj.5.2.%25p

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