This article compares the legal regulation of child maintenance after divorce in the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Uzbekistan. The study focuses on the continuity of parental obligations after divorce, methods for determining the amount of child support, contractual arrangements, judicial modification, additional expenses, duration, and enforcement. A doctrinal comparative method is applied to the Uzbek Constitution, Family Code and Supreme Court guidance, and to the Chinese Civil Code and the Supreme People’s Court judicial interpretations, including the 2025 Interpretation (II). The results show a shared child-centred principle but different techniques of quantification. Uzbekistan relies on statutory income fractions combined with a minimum threshold and the possibility of fixed-sum awards, whereas China gives courts broader discretion within a structured percentage guideline linked to the child’s actual needs, parental ability and local living standards. The article argues that both systems would benefit from stronger periodic review mechanisms, clearer treatment of irregular and digital-platform income, and practical cross-border enforcement tools.

child maintenance, divorce, family law, child support, Uzbekistan, China, best interests of the child, enforcement, comparative law.

Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Official English text. Tashkent, 2023. p. 11.

Family Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Law No. 607-I, 30 April 1998, current version 2026. LexUZ.

Supreme Court of Uzbekistan. Plenum Resolution No. 11, 29 July 2016, on judicial practice in child-maintenance cases.

Oila huquqi: darslik / authors’ collective; ed. O.I. Oqyulov. Tashkent: TSUL, 2017. pp. 118–131.

Karaxodjayeva D.M., Akayeva N.M., Yuldasheva Sh.R. Fuqarolik va oila huquqi. Tashkent: Ilm Ziyo, 2012. 440 p. See p. 85.

Saydivaliyeva X.X. Oila huquqining shartnomaviy-huquqiy asoslari. Tashkent: Pages print, 2025. 132 p. See p. 78.

Teshayeva Z. Aliment undirish tartibi va qonunchilik asoslari. Zamonaviy dunyoda ijtimoiy fanlar. 2025;4(15):24–25.

Wan M., Zhu F., Amour B., Tang H. The Civil Code of the PRC: English Translation. Singapore: Springer, 2022/2023. Book Five, pp. 283–304.

Supreme People’s Court Civil Code Implementation Leading Group. Understanding and Application of the Civil Code: Marriage, Family and Succession. Beijing: People’s Court Press, 2020. pp. 294–295.

Supreme People’s Court of the PRC. Civil Code Marriage and Family Interpretation (I), Fa Shi [2020] No. 22, effective 1 January 2021.

Supreme People’s Court of the PRC. Civil Code Marriage and Family Interpretation (II), Fa Shi [2025] No. 1, effective 1 February 2025.