Maintenance
What to Do If You Genuinely Cannot Pay Maintenance
For a payer in genuine financial difficulty, this explains why you must apply to vary rather than simply stop paying, what counts…
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Spousal and child maintenance — how much, how long, and enforcement.
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Maintenance Support Services and Enforcement Help
What help exists when maintenance goes unpaid: the Family Justice Courts' records and enforcement process, how to apply, and the orders the…
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How a New Relationship Affects Maintenance
How a new relationship affects maintenance: remarriage and cohabitation on the recipient's side, a new family on the payer's side, and why…
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When Does Maintenance Start? The Commencement Date
How the court fixes the date a maintenance obligation starts, when it can be backdated to the date of application, and why…
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Maintenance for an Adult Child With a Disability
How maintenance continues past 21 for a child with a disability, who applies once the child is an adult, and the planning…
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Maintenance for a Child in University or National Service
The duty to maintain a child usually stops at 21, but there are defined exceptions, and university and National Service are two…
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Caring for Elderly Parents While Divorcing
The sandwich generation problem: supporting parents and children at once, while a divorce redraws the household around all of them.
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Does Remarriage End Maintenance Obligations?
Whose remarriage ends spousal maintenance, why the payer's new family does not cancel the old obligation, and where child maintenance sits.
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Maintenance When Your Income Drops or Rises
When a change in income justifies varying a maintenance order, what evidence the court expects, and the mistake that turns a hard…
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Enforcing a Foreign Maintenance Order in Singapore
How maintenance orders cross borders under the reciprocal enforcement regime, and the options when the other country is not on the list.