Spousal Maintenance in UK Law
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Commonwealth Action in the Field of Private International Law
Introduction. Child support and family maintenance in international cases. Commonwealth arrangements. A new Hague Convention. REMO Orders and the new Convention. The recognition and enforcement of ...... ... @Child support and family maintenance in international cases ... 2. Commonwealth governments are well aware of ... So far as spousal maintenance is concerned, almost all the legislation is limited to orders ... ...
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The Perils and Pitfalls of Formal Equality in Australian Family Law Reform*
In this paper, we identify the influence of formal equality—and more specifically, formal gender equality (that is, treating men and women the same)—in central areas of major Australian family law ...... ... Spousal maintenance law has not been the subject of reform proposals since ... ...
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The Normal Chaos of Family Law
... ... 23 Children Come First: The Government’s Proposals on the Maintenance of Children (London, HMSO, 1990) vol 1, para 2. 24 The emphasis is ... Bill was that ‘..the structured approach to the resolution of spousal maintenance and matrimonial property disputes laid down by the Bill should ... ...
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The Importance of Full and Frank Disclosure in Family Law Financial Proceedings and the Many Consequences of Non-Disclosure
This article examines the duty of full and frank disclosure of parties to family law financial proceedings in Australia, and the potential consequences of failure to comply with this fundamental ob...... ... Financial matters include: spousal maintenance (ss 74, 90SF(1) and modification of spousal maintenance orders ... ...
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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
... ... rather than to propose principles applicable to all maintenance cases and try to modify them in children cases. This is ... ideologies on which at present the legal obligation of spousal maintenance after divorce rests.3 The ideal can be termed the goal ... ...
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Reports Of Committees
... ... of status, change of name, alimony and maintenance, maintenance and affiliation agreements, inter-spousal ... ...
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Financial Remedies
... ... the context of an application for an interim remedy, namely, maintenance pending suit. The court should seek to apply ... be given to this circumstance in assessing the correct level of spousal maintenance that is fair and just in all the circumstances. 74 ... 2.8.4 ... ...
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Rights and Utility in Anglo‐Australian Family Law
... ... in the British Social Security Act 1990,2 the Maintenance Enforcement Act 19913 and the Child Support Act 1991.4 The ... The goal of spousal maintenance has become the provision of sums adequate for ... ...
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Gender Imbalances, Economic Vulnerability and Cohabitation: Evaluating the Gendered Impact of Section 28 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006
... ... Although this is in the context of spousal maintenance, Deech reflects these sentiments in the cohabitation context ... ...
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Quantifying the Homemaker Contribution in Family Property Law
A central question in family property law in Australia is how to place a value on the homemaker contribution in comparison with other kinds of contribution. The problem is especially difficult wher...... ... Journal of Family Law268; Rebecca Bailey-Harris, 'The Role of Maintenance and Property Orders in RedressingInequality: Re-Opening the Debate' (1998) ... s 75(2), thosefactors are limited by their context in the award of spousal maintenance, whichrequires the applicant to demonstrate a threshold of ... ...
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