Non-food assistance is a legally relevant crime, which seeks to protect the right of those who consider themselves beneficiaries as a fundamental right. It is conducive to the intervention of criminal law for the Colombian State, in relation to making effective the real protection of the family in the legal order of the current criminal type towards maintenance in the mandatory food. Through the study carried out, specialized articles, jurisprudence and regulations are analyzed, framed in competent legal scenarios and the corresponding laws.