The rights of children need to be protected in spite of any conditions of state existence, and the legal regime of martial law is no exception. One of the types of support for the existence of the child is the payment of alimony for its maintenance. In connection with the introduction of a special legal regime - the legal regime of martial law and the revision of the existing norms of legislation, enshrined for the normal existence of the state, the question arose about the relevance of norms that regulate alimony payments for normal times to circumstances associated with a special legal regime (loss of employment by the alimony payer, including those associated with armed aggression against the state; appearance of territories with a special status (temporarily occupied areas, territories, Also, the issue of termination of recoveries for the period of legal regime of martial law; the possibility of charging a fine for recovery of alimony within the framework of enforcement proceedings; the possibility of commencing enforcement proceedings to recover alimony from a person who is/resides in the territory with a special status - temporarily occupied or the territory where active hostilities are taking place. The issue of recovery of alimony from a person who has the status of a military man is considered, as well as problems with the functioning of state registries.