According to laws of the Russian Federation, the child has the right for material support of both parents, is not dependent on whether they consisted at the time of its birth in official marriage or not. If the man does not agree to provide the kid whose father he is, alimony can be collected from him in court.
Instruction
1. An important circumstance in this situation is the fact of voluntary recognition by the man of the paternity. That is, whether it was entered in the birth certificate of the child on with own hand written application in bodies of the REGISTRY OFFICE. If yes, that you can safely write the petition, having taken with yourself a standard set of documents. It is your passport and its copy, for confirmation of the personality, the birth certificate of the child with a photocopy and the certificate of family composition from ZhEK or a passport office to prove cohabitation with the child. The statement of claim is filed a lawsuit in a place of registration of the defendant, in your case the court almost for certain will oblige the father of the child to pay on it alimony.
2. If the father of the child was not entered in the birth certificate, or entered according to mother there, then before collecting alimony, it is necessary to achieve paternity proof of this person in court. Before so decisive step it is worth weighing all arguments of pros and cons, having stopped being single mother, you lose the corresponding privileges and payments, and the person recognized as the child's father gets not only duties, but also the rights of the parent, than can strongly complicate your life.
3. Strong evidences will be necessary for you for paternity proof in court. The most important and indisputable argument is DNA examination which can be undergone voluntarily, or if the father of the child does not agree, raise a question of conducting this examination in court. By the way, the refusal of the defendant of passing of a chromosomal research is treated by court in favor of the claimant. The question of charge of alimony can be raised along with paternity proof in the same court, then in case of the satisfaction of the first claim the judge will at once determine also the amount of material keeping of the minor.