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The survey on visitation and alimony in 2004 is commissioned by the Ministry of Children and Family (BFD). It is a follow-up survey to the "Survey on Visitation and Alimony 2002". The purpose of these two surveys is to evaluate the alimony reform that was enforced the 1st of October 2003. The reform introduced new rules for calculation of the alimony. Whilst the contributions before 2003 were calculated as a percentage of the maintenance payer's income, the post-2003 calculation would also take the alimony recipient's economy and child-related expenses into consideration. The main objective of the survey in 2004 was to contribute to the evaluation of the reform by mapping put the situation after the implementation of the reform. The situation before the reform was investigated in the 2002 survey. The Ministry of Children and Family was particularly eager to learn of the extent which the new rules affected the respondents' economic situation and actual time spent with the children.