Child Support Convention and Protocol enter into force for Ecuador

Today, 1 July 2022, the Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance (2007 Child Support Convention) and the Protocol of 23 November 2007 on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations (Maintenance Obligations Protocol) entered into force for the Republic of Ecuador, following the deposit of its instrument of ratification on 2 March 2022.

At present, 44 States and the European Union are bound by the 2007 Child Support Convention, while 30 States and the European Union are bound by the Maintenance Obligations Protocol. More information on these instruments is available on the Child Support Section of the HCCH website.

Ecuador has been a Member of the HCCH since 2007 and is a Contracting Party to six HCCH instruments.