The phrase "avoid payment" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It usually refers to withholding or preventing payment for something. For example, "The company tried to avoid payment of the fine by delaying the court case."
Henley declared bankruptcy, which temporarily allowed him to avoid payment.
But Count Tolstoy declared himself bankrupt to avoid payment and repeatedly appealed the decision.
Mr. Clinton said nursing homes can now avoid payment for years during appeals.
"There was no deliberate attempt to avoid payment, he was overwhelmed by the sum.
The purpose of that document was also to avoid payment of personal property tax.
When the Medomsley victims first sought redress, the Home Office used the statute of limitations to avoid payment.
Despite profits of more than £36m over that period, it has used entirely legal accounting manoeuvres to avoid payments.
The provision would allow mutual insurance companies to move to other states to avoid payments they would otherwise owe policyholders as they reorganize their corporate structure.
She said she had seen noncustodial parents who had spirited away their children without notice, custodial parents who had moved without good cause and parents who had tried to avoid payments of child support.
Others argued that the shored-up tax requirement would do little to dissuade investors, whether it was foreigners or local people who have been using the exemption to avoid payments on profits earned from selling secondary residences.
The sale will help to finance debt, avoid payments and to focus on production in 2009.
