Pensión de alimentos: tendencia europea a las tablas

Abstract

[EN] The calculation of child maintenance in Spain lacks guidance or criteria to assist in stabilizing the amount to pay. There are other aspects that derivate to take into account when stabilising Child Maintenance, such a "variation measures" which are not regulated by the law, it is therefore necessary in these cases to look into the Spanish Court´s precedents. The recent guidance published by the CGPJ to regulate the quantity of maintenance, would bring a similar system to those currently in place in other European States such as the English system. This systems would be discussed in the content of this article. The approach in other European States is that the final amount is based on theincome of the non-resident parent. Other relevant factors which will be taken into account include the number of children involved and the income of the resident parent. The objective of this article is to examine the proposed law to be implemented in Spain and contrast it with the way the English legal system operates in this respect. This will provide a good base for establishing how to apply the proposed Spanish law in practice. The other aim of the study is to explore the proposed changes in line with the current social climate in Spain and whether the new law will be well adapted as well as identifying whether or not this system has derived from the practices of surrounding countries.

[ES] La fijación de la pensión alimenticia en el sistema español carece de unos criterios a los que acudir que garanticen una idea previa de la cuantía final que pudiera ser establecida.A ello debe añadirse que otras vertientes derivadas de la mencionada pensión, como la modificación de medidas, tampoco tienen una regulación exacta, debiendo acudir a criterios jurisprudenciales para entrar a conocer de las mismas.La reciente propuesta por parte del Consejo General del Poder Judicial de unas tablas orientativas a la hora de fijar la mencionada pensión de alimentos, supone una adaptación a otros sistemas europeos, como el inglés, el cual se comentará a lo largo del artículo.En estos ordenamientos se basa la fijación en una proporción de los ingresos del progenitor no custodio, la cual podrá ser modificada, en función del número de hijos, aunque sean posteriores, y la variación objetiva en el nivel de emolumentos.