Junior partner in the governing coalition, the People's Party-Movement for Democratic Slovakia (LS-HZDS) suggests that divorced parents who do not pay child support should be stripped of a driving license. "If a parent with a support duty has enough money to spend on petrol and does not have enough money to spend on his child, he should be stripped of a driving license, which would make him to start paying child support," said one of the authors of the proposal LS-HZDS chairman Vladimir Meciar.
LS-HZDS points out that there are still a lot of divorced parents, who do not want to fulfill their duty to support and maintain their dependent child. In 2006, distrainers solved 8,000 motions for collecting of unpaid child support. The proposal of LS-HZDS will be a part of the draft revision of the law on distrainers.
Everybody, who does not properly take care of a child, with the exception of professional parents, can be stripped of a driving license. Authors of the draft bill were inspired by Polish legislation. Such law has been in force there since May 2005 and is supposedly highly effective. Sixty percent of debtors paid the child support. "I recommend to fathers and mothers, who are not paying and want to have a driving license, to settle fast their debts otherwise they will have to walk," said Mr. Meciar.
LS-HZDS deputy Katarina Tothova assumes that the law will be enforceable without any problems. In failing to pay child support, a distrainer can ask the police department, which issued the driving license, to revoke it.