Family Proceedings Act 1980

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

98: Apportionment of maintenance payments

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"How maintenance payments are split when you have multiple orders"

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You pay maintenance under several orders. You make a payment that is only part of the total amount due. The payment is split between the orders based on how much each order is worth compared to the total amount due.

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

98Apportionment of maintenance payments

  1. Where any person by whom maintenance is payable under 2 or more maintenance orders makes any payment of part only of the total amount for the time being payable under those orders, the amount of the payment shall be deemed to have been apportioned in the proportions that the amounts payable under the several orders bear to the total amount payable under all of those orders.