Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance

Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance

Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance
Parties   Signatories that did not ratify   Party (treaty not entered into force)
Signed	23 November 2007
Location	The Hague, The Netherlands
Effective	1 January 2013
Condition	Ratification by 2 states
Signatories	18[1][2]
Parties	25 covering 49 countries
Depositary	Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)
Languages	English and French

The Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, also referred to as the Hague Maintenance Convention or the Hague Child Support Convention is a multilateral treaty governing the enforcement of judicial decisions regarding child support (and other forms of family support) extraterritorially. It is one of a number of conventions in the area of private international law of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in 2007. The convention is open to all states as well as to Regional Economic Integration Organizations as long as they are composed of sovereign states only and have sovereignty in (part of) the content of the convention. The convention entered into force on 1 January 2013 between Norway and Albania, with Bosnia-Herzegovina (2013), Ukraine (2013), the European Union (2014, except with respect to Denmark), Montenegro (2017), United States (2017), Turkey (2017), Kazakhstan (2017), Brazil (2017), Honduras (2017), Belarus (2018), Guyana (2020), Nicaragua (2020), United Kingdom (2021),^[a] Serbia (2021), New Zealand (2021), Ecuador (2022), Botswana (2022), Philippines (2022), Azerbaijan (2023) and Canada (2023 for British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario) following suit. Because the EU acceptance of the convention applies in 26 EU countries (all except Denmark), the convention applies in 47 countries worldwide.

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