Article 183
(1) (Amended, SG No. 95/1975, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 92/2002, effective 1.01.2005 amended, SG No. 26/2004, effective 1.01.2004, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005,
supplemented, SG No. 47/2009, effective 1.10.2009) A person who, being sentenced to support a
spouse, a relative of ascending or descending line, brother or sister, consciously does not fulfil
his obligation to the amount of two or more monthly payments, shall be punished with
imprisonment of up to one year or by probation.
(2) The same punishment shall also be imposed on a person who purposefully places
himself in a position of impossibility to provide support, either by transferring his property or by
failing to exercise his rights or in any other way.
(3) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982) The perpetrator shall not be punished if prior to the
pronouncement of the sentence by the first instance court, he fulfils his obligation and no other
harmful consequences have set in for the aggrieved party person. This provision shall not be
applied for a second time.
(4) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002, effective 1.01.2005 with respect to the punishment of
probation - amended, SG No. 26/2004, effective 1.01.2004) If the act under paragraphs (1) and
(2) is committed for a second time, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to two years or
probation, as well as public censure.
Article 184
(1) A person who deliberately replaces, hides or abandons an infant at another door, or in
any other way conceals or changes the civil status of another, shall be punished by imprisonment
for up to two years.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993) If the above is effected for a venal
purpose, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to three years and a fine from BGN one
hundred to three hundred.
Article 185
(1) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) A person who of his own accord takes or retains with him
the child of another, who has not completed fourteen years of age, and fails to notify forthwith
the authorities or fails to return the child to the parents or the guardian, shall be punished by
imprisonment for up to three years.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 26/2010) If the above takes
place by use of force, threat or deceit, or with the intention to use the child for venal or immoral
purposes, the punishment shall be imprisonment from one to six years and a fine from up to
BGN 5,000.
Article 186
(Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 26/2010)
A person who takes a child abandoned at a door or lost, of an age less than seven years, and
fails to notify forthwith the authorities, the parents or the guardian of the child, shall be punished
by imprisonment of up to one year or by probation.
Section II
Crimes Against Youth