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Family Proceedings Act 1980

Maintenance of spouses and de facto partners - Miscellaneous provisions as to maintenance

97: Security for maintenance

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"Ensuring maintenance payments are made"

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When a court makes a maintenance order, it can also order the person who must pay maintenance to provide security. This security is for paying any money that is owed under the maintenance order. The court decides what security is needed. The court can tell the Registrar to help create a proper deed or instrument for this security. You and other necessary parties must sign this deed or instrument. The Registrar must approve it.

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Part 6Maintenance of spouses and de facto partners
Miscellaneous provisions as to maintenance

97Security for maintenance

  1. On or at any time after making a maintenance order, a court may order the person by whom maintenance is payable under the order or the personal representative of that person to give such security as the court specifies for the payment of any sum that is to be paid pursuant to the maintenance order.

  2. The court may, for the purposes of subsection (1), direct the Registrar of the court to settle and approve a proper deed or instrument, to be executed by all the necessary parties.