Collect Child Support From Abroad, Free
Brazil can reach a parent in any treaty country
Por Lucas Ribeiro Cavalcante — OAB/CE 44.673
Collect Child Support From Abroad, Free
Brazil can reach a parent in any treaty country
Por Lucas Ribeiro Cavalcante — OAB/CE 44.673
Your child lives with you in Brazil. The other parent moved to Portugal, the US, Germany or Japan. The transfers stopped three months ago. You call, you message, you get silence.
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Distance is not immunity. A parent who crossed the ocean did not cross out the debt.
Brazil is party to the 2007 Hague Child Support Convention, Decree 9.176/2017, and the Montevideo Convention, Decree 2.428/1997. But the request does not start in a foreign court.
Dica
It starts at the DRCI, Brazil's Central Authority inside the Ministry of Justice. It forwards your case to the debtor's country. You never hire a foreign lawyer.
Certified support decision
Child's birth certificate
Debtor's address abroad
Then the foreign authority uses its own weapons: wage garnishment, bank levies, tax refund interception, even driver's license suspension in some US states.
12-30
Months from filing to the first payment landing in your account
✘ Mito
Myth: he is safe abroad, Brazilian orders mean nothing there
✓ Verdade
Truth: the Brazilian arrest warrant still waits the day he returns
Your child's right to support does not stop at the border. Start the process now.