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The Story of a Father Who Changed His Name, Surname, and Entire Identity Every Year to Evade Alimony Exposed the Level of Creativity of Debtors. The Case Ended in Failure and Raised Questions About Legal Loopholes
A story attracted the attention of the Russian press this week and became an extreme example of how far some people will go to escape their legal obligations. According to the head of the Justice Officers Service in the city of Tyumen, Roman Korenev, a local resident spent years adopting a strategy as absurd as it was useless: he completely changed his first name, surname, and patronymic once a year, in an attempt to disappear from the radar and avoid paying child support for his own children.
The revelation was made in an interview with the Russian portal 72.RU, when Korenev detailed that the man would even replace his entire civil identity, as if he were starting life from scratch. After a few months, he would recover his original name and repeat the cycle, in a kind of bureaucratic game of hide-and-seek with the State. Despite all efforts, the plan never truly worked.
A Lost Game From the Start
According to Korenev, the citizen believed that by altering his personal data, he would be free from tracking by the justice officers. But Russian law is clear: every change registered in the civil registry must be immediately communicated to the authorities responsible for enforcing alimony. In practice, this made it impossible for the debtor to completely disappear.
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“When someone changes their name, the registry automatically informs the justice officers. The debtor cannot evade alimony this way,” stated the head of the service.
The authorities did not specify how long the man managed to delay the collection, but confirmed that the entire maneuver ended in failure, with the debt being located and maintained.
Not an Isolated Case: Bizarre Tricks Have Become Routine
The judiciary system of Tyumen revealed that “creative” attempts to escape financial obligations are more common than they seem. According to local agents, there are people who simulate illnesses, invent phobias, or try to create bureaucratic confusion to avoid enforcing debts.
One of the cited episodes involved a man who claimed to suffer from severe agoraphobia to prevent agents from entering his residence. The excuse fell apart when it was discovered that he owned two apartments, one of which was subject to foreclosure.
Similar cases have been repeating: men who fake their own deaths to avoid paying alimony and even individuals who go as far as falsifying DNA tests to try to escape legal responsibilities toward their children.
Why Does This Type of Fraud Continue to Happen?
Experts interviewed by the Russian press say that bureaucratic loopholes, slow digital systems, and the immense financial pressure on separated families fuel attempts at evasion. Nonetheless, the laws in the country have modernized in recent years, drastically reducing the scope for such scams.
According to Korenev, many debtors believe they can “fool the system,” but they overlook the fact that all civil records are centralized and automatically communicated to the authorities responsible for collecting alimony.
Could This Happen in Brazil?
In Brazil, something similar would be practically impossible. The Public Records Law (Law No. 6.015/1973) stipulates that any change of name must be communicated to various agencies, including the Federal Revenue, Electoral Justice, INSS, and state databases.
Moreover, Brazilian Justice uses the CPF as an absolute identifier, which means you can change your name, but the CPF remains the same forever. It is through it that processes, debts, alimonies, and financial blockages are tracked.
Another important point: child support in Brazil is integrated into the systems of CNJ and BacenJud, which allow for account blocks, listings in active debt, and even civil imprisonment of the debtor.
In other words, even if someone changed their name every year, the debt would still be tied to the same CPF, making it impossible to disappear from the system.
In summary: stories like the one from Russia attract attention for their bizarre nature, but in Brazil they wouldn’t work even for a day.
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