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 | |
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| Signed | 23 November 2007 |
| Location | The Hague, The Netherlands |
| Effective | 1 January 2013 |
| Condition | Ratification by 2 states |
| Signatories | 19 |
| Parties | 28 covering 53 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 and applies now in 53 countries worldwide.