Crime of Failure to Provide Maintenance - Theoretical and practical aspects –.

In the first part of the paper the author speaks about legal duty to providing maintenance which is prescribed in Family law act of The Republic of Serbia, about preventive importance of criminalizing failure to provide maintenance, and the fact that the problems about failure to provide maintenance were analyzed on the IX International Congress for Criminal Law. In the second part of the paper, the author analyzes elements of the crime of Failure to Provide Maintenance from art. 195. Criminal code of The Republic of Serbia. Stress is put on work of commission and its relations with subsidiary character of crime law protection. Furthermore, it hints the nature of this crime, elements of guilt, its relations with crimes of Neglecting and Abusing a Minor and Violation of Family Duty, with critical analyzes of its graver form etc. Problems of this crime are analyzed from theoretical and practical aspects. In the last, the third part of the paper, the author gives his proposal de lege ferenda about this crime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]