International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenace

海牙国际私法会议正在开展关于新的《国际追索儿童抚养费和其他形式家庭赡养费公约》的工作。谈判于2003年5月举行，随后特别委员会于2004年6月7日至18日举行了第二次会议。特别委员会于2004年6月17日提出了新公约的工作草案。我被任命为小组主席。在国际范围内，与日本有关的维护问题似乎并不多，至少是以一种明显的方式。但是，考虑到赡养费申请人的资源通常非常有限，似乎没有人反对旨在使他们能够收回赡养费的新国际文书的目的。未来的公约可能主要由两部分组成，即行政合作、承认和执行外国维持判决。法律选择规则似乎只是在选择的基础上通过，而不是作为公约的组成部分。在海牙谈判期间，美国和欧盟国家之间在管辖范围和法律选择规则方面需要克服的障碍变得明显。本文试图解释这两方面的差距，并提出一些弥合差距的方法，这是必要的，因为公约的目标是全球性的，而不是区域性的。

Work on the new Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance is underway under the Hague Conference of Private International Law. The negotiations were held in May 2003,followed by the second meeting of its Special Commission during the period from 7 to 18 June 2004. The Special Commission produced the Working Draft for the new Convention on 17 June 2004.The Ministry of Justice set up an advisory panel for the Minister of Justice to deal with this future convention in April 2004. I was appointed chairman for the panel. It does not seem that many maintenance problems in the international sphere have occurred in connection with Japan at least in a noticeable way. But, taking account of the applicants for maintenance generally having very limited resources, nobody seem to object to the purpose of the new international instrument designed to enable them to recover their maintenance. The future convention are likely to consist of, mainly, the two parts, namely, administrative co-operation, recognition and enforcement of foreign maintenancedecisions.The choice of law rules seem to be adopted only on the optional basis rather than as an integral part of the convention.During the negotiations at the Hague, the obstacles to be overcome became apparent between the United States and the States belonging to European Union in connection with the spheres of jurisdiction and choice of law rules. This research tries to explain the gap between these two sides and to inndicate some ways to bridge it. This is essential, because the convention aims to be global ratherthan regional.