MOSCOW, February 22 (RAPSI) – The State Duma has adopted in the third and final reading a bill on protection of children’s right to alimony and state social guarantees.

The bill is aimed to eliminate problems concerning court-ordered recovery of alimony from debtors whose location is unknown.

Under the draft law, judges would request available information about a debtor from court bailiffs after receipt of an application demanding to declare the person in debt missing.

Court bailiffs would be obliged to inform persons seeking the exaction and explain their right to ask a court to declare a debtor missing, when his or her search came to nothing, and location was not established within a year after advanced information on debtor was received.

Declaration of indebted individual’s absence constitutes grounds for award of survivor pension, the statement reads.

As of December 31, 2016, over 1,000 alimony debtors are being searched for more than 4 years, according to the government.