12,714 court orders for alimony collection in 2025

The number of court orders for alimony collection in Ukraine is gradually decreasing. 99,909 such decisions were issued by the courts from 2021 to August 2025. The highest number was recorded in 2021 — 27,251 orders. But by 2024, the number had dropped by a quarter — to 20,504.

In the first 8 months of 2025, Ukrainian courts issued 12,714 orders. This is 6% less than in the same period last year and 28% less than in 2021.

«The main advantage of order-based proceedings is speed: you quickly receive a court decision, which at the same time is also an enforcement document — the law gives 5 days for this — and you can submit it for execution. In contrast, a court hearing in a regular lawsuit can take from several weeks to several months. At the same time, the main disadvantage of this method of alimony collection is that the amount of alimony in order-based proceedings is strictly limited by law», 

— says judge Petro Tyshkun.

This year, courts most often issue alimony collection orders in Dnipropetrovsk region: 1,654 decisions — 13% of the total nationwide. Next are Odesa region with 948 orders (8%), Kharkiv region — 837 (7%), Kyiv region — 810 (6%), and Lviv region — 772 (6%). Altogether, these five regions account for almost 40% of all court orders in Ukraine this year.

It should be noted that this refers to the number of issued orders, not their enforcement or actual payments — only the cases where the court has already issued a document that can be taken to the enforcement service.

«An application for a court order is easier to prepare than a full lawsuit, and it saves the claimant time and resources. But it is important to understand that under a court order, you cannot collect additional expenses for a child — only half of the subsistence minimum for a child or a share of income, and even then in a limited amount. If a child needs extra expenses, you still have to go to court with a lawsuit», 

— says Talina Kravtsova, partner at Asters.

As a reminder, more than 187,000 alimony debts are currently listed in the Unified Register of Debtors.