Question juridique clé
Whether unpaid alimony can be counted as 'waived income' under Art. 3c(1)(g) ELG despite prolonged enforcement efforts failing against an obligor abroad.
Solution extraite
No. Where the claimant has taken all reasonable enforcement steps over several years and the alimony remains unenforceable, the unpaid maintenance may not be imputed as waived income.
Motifs extraits
Imputation under Art. 3c(1)(g) ELG requires that the claimant can fairly be reproached for not exhausting reasonable collection possibilities. Here, the claimant used the competent authority and foreign lawyers; the obligor's non-payment persisted for five years, and further success appeared highly unlikely. This makes successful collection overwhelmingly improbable, so no waiver can be assumed.