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Family Proceedings Act 1980

Overseas maintenance - Maintenance of children in respect of applications from persons in Convention countries

145H: Contributions by other parent

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"Asking the other parent to help pay for your child"

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You can ask the court to make another parent help pay for your child's maintenance. If the court has already ordered one parent to pay maintenance, that parent can ask the court to make the other parent contribute too. The court will decide how much the other parent should pay.

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Part 8Overseas maintenance
Maintenance of children in respect of applications from persons in Convention countries

145HContributions by other parent

  1. Where an application is made under section 145E(a) against a parent of a child,—

  2. that parent may join another person as a respondent in the proceedings; or
    1. the court may in any case direct that another parent be joined as a respondent in the proceedings.

      1. Where, pursuant to an application made under section 145E(a), the court has made a maintenance order against a parent of a child, and another parent was not a respondent in those proceedings,—

      2. the parent against whom the order was made may apply to the court for an order requiring another parent to make a monetary contribution towards the maintenance of the child; and
        1. on hearing the application, the court may order another parent to make such monetary contribution towards the maintenance of the child as the court thinks fit.

          Notes
          • Section 145H: inserted, on , by section 21 of the Family Proceedings Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 144).