The parent who does not live with the child must perform their parental duties by paying child support – among other obligations. The actual amount of child support is a crucial matter, which is primarily decided upon by the parents – provided they can achieve an agreement – or by the court.

Is it possible for the child support to follow the inflation?

Luckily, the answer is yes. The Hungarian Civil Code offers multiple possibilities in this matter.

For one, it is perfectly possible for the parents to agree on the amount of child support by taking into consideration the inflation. Therefore, they can agree to increase the amount of child support by the official inflation rates.

Secondly, in lieu of an agreement, the law allows the courts to decide on the amount of child support by increasing it yearly, according to the official inflation rates. In this case, the inflation rate reported by the KSH will be applicable, and the amount of child support shall be automatically increased accordingly every year. This method guarantees that the amount of child support will keep its value despite of inflation. The official inflation rate is reported by the KSH on the 15th January every year, therefore – in practice – the amount of child support shall be increased in the following month.

It is also possible to increase the amount of child support even if the original agreement of the parents did not include such automatic increase.

It is also important to note that such automatic increase is only able to keep up with the official inflation rate, however it is not able to keep up with the child’s increasing needs. Still, in case it is necessary, the parent living with the child is also able to sue for the increase of child support because of the child’s changing needs.

What can I do if they don’t pay child support in the first place?

In such a situation the parent living with the child may initiate the enforcement of child support payment. In case the child support is non-enforcable, it is also possible to request the state to pay an advance support, instead of the parent. From 01st January 2022, the rules regarding advance support have changed drastically, and nowadays it is much simpler to acquire child support this way: the advance payment has less conditions, and it may be requested after 3 months’ delay. The maximum amount of the advance payment is 50.200,- HUF per month.

Although the lack of the parents’ agreement regarding child support, a possible lawsuit and the problems regarding the enforcement of the child support may seem like a big hassle, it is always important to keep in mind that the child has ever increasing needs that must be paid for. Therefore, it is recommended to keep the child support payment under control and to seek professional help where necessary.

In case you need legal help regarding child support, payment or enforcement of child support or any related legal issues, feel free to contact our experts!

Government Decree No. 415/2025 (XII. 23.) on the amendment of consumer protection–related government decrees with a view to ensuring a higher level of consumer protection introduces substantial changes in the field of consumer protection as of 2026.

In this article, we briefly summarise those amendments which will be perceptible to consumers in everyday life and may be of particular practical importance from 2026 onwards.

Government Decree No. 415/2025 (XII. 23.) amends a total of six government decrees related to consumer protection.
The objectives of the amendments are, on the one hand, to strengthen consumer protection and, on the other hand, to reduce the administrative burden on businesses, while also ensuring compliance with EU law and legal harmonisation.

Government Decree No. 448/2025 (XII. 29.) amends Government Decree No. 327/2015 (XI. 10.) on the detailed rules of professional practice related to surveying and cartographic activities for non-cadastral purposes by introducing a new concept and new rules. These amendments will enter into force on 14 January 2026.

The most significant change is the introduction of the concept of the planning base map, the preparation of which now mandatorily requires the setting out of the property boundary.

In practice, the new regulation aims to ensure more uniform, more accurate and, from the perspective of the planning process, more reliable base maps, which may help prevent future conflicts and legal disputes. At the same time, the additional requirements are likely to slow down procedures and increase costs, and stakeholders should be prepared for this impact.

What Do Carriers and Affected Businesses Need to Know?

On 23 December 2025, two new pieces of legislation affecting public roads and freight traffic were promulgated, both of which entered into force on 1 January 2026. The primary objective of the new regulatory framework is to ensure that international and domestic transit traffic is conducted along uniform, legally designated routes, primarily using high-capacity dual-carriageway (2×2 lane) road networks. The regulation serves both to enhance road safety and to reduce the burden on residential areas and secondary roads.

The two relevant legal instruments are: 

• Decree No. 44/2025 (XII. 23.) of the Ministry of Construction and Transport (ÉKM), aimed at defining the Hungarian sections of the transit route network; and

• Government Decree No. 439/2025 (XII. 23.), aimed at curbing freight traffic diverted from expressways.

Opinion leaders, commonly referred to as influencers, have become key actors in modern communication as a result of the rapid expansion of the internet and social media.
The development of digital technologies, the widespread use of smartphones, and the global proliferation of social media platforms—such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch—have fundamentally transformed users’ content consumption habits, as well as their entertainment and purchasing behaviours. As a consequence, influencer marketing has emerged as one of the most significant and fastest-growing tools of the modern advertising market.

By way of an interesting observation, it should be noted that, from a legal perspective, the category of influencers is not limited to natural persons acting as opinion leaders. An influencer may also include a CGI or deepfake character, an animal, or even an object.

The rapid growth of this phenomenon and the intermingling of personal and commercial content on social media platforms primarily justify the need for regulation in this field. For consumers—particularly audiences younger or older than the average user—it is often not clear whether an influencer’s recommendation is based on a paid collaboration, the provision of a gifted product, or another form of material interest.

The Hungarian Civil Code recognises the existence of a domestic partnership in two distinct forms. It sets forth the institution of marriage, which several legal scholars have described in elevated terms as an “emotional and economic alliance,” and it also provides for the possibility of living together without entering into marriage, in the form of a cohabitation (élettársi kapcsolat). The law strictly characterises this latter form as an obligational legal relationship, regulated under Title XXV of the Book on the Law of Contracts.