Maintenance Obligation
This person may be required to provide maintenance if parents are unable due to death, disability, or infirmity.
Who is grandparent?
One spouse doing this is likely to remove the other's obligation to maintain him/her
What is remarry or cohabit with a lover?
Adoption, giving your surname to a known "jacket" or accepting your spouse child as part of the family after marriage or cohabitation makes you this.
What is the child's parent?
A summons must be served this many days before the hearing.
What is 7 days?
The Probation Officer recommends this type of custody to allow alternating care and control between parents.
What is split or divided custody?
This principle means maintenance orders are based on fairness, not necessarily equal division.
What is equity?
A spouse can dodge having to maintain another if he/she can demonstrate that the other spouse has no legitimate this.
What is need?
Parents are legally obligated to maintain their child(ren), even into late adulthood, provided the child(ren) is this.
What is a dependent?
When deciding on the matters, the court prioritizes this factor above all.
What is the welfare of the child?
Officers observe this relationship to evaluate custody applications.
What is the parent-child relationship?
Maintenance may include these types of expenses incurred before a child is born.
What are prenatal and birth expenses?
A requested sum may be denied if the court is satisfied that the responding spouse does not have this.
What is means or financial ability to pay?
A person under the age of 18 years is not considered a child if he/she is this.
What is married?
A hearing may proceed without the respondent if the judge is satisfied about this.
What is proof of service?
Officers must be careful when recommending this major change for a child.
What is removal from one environment to another?
Child maintenance generally continues until this age, unless extended for studies.
What is 18 years old?
The responding spouse may have the amount and length of spousal maintenance lessen if he/she can demonstrate this.
What is the capacity of the receiving spouse to become self-supporting?
A parent is said to have this if he/she has the authority to administer the child’s estate and make decisions relating to the child.
What is custody?
Probation officers assist the court by conducting these investigations.
What are means / home/background investigations?
This principle, drawn from psychology and social work, guides officers’ recommendations.
What is the best interest of the child?
A child’s maintenance is apportioned according to this standard, not equality.
What is capacity to pay?
Following the termination of a cohabitation, a spouse (common-law) may escape maintaining the other if he/she can avoid an application being made within this period.
What is 12 months?
A parent is said to have this if the custody order awards him/her the authority to exercise physical control over a child or manage the day-to-day activities.
What is care and control?
Custody and maintenance cases may involve these being made before a final determination.
What are interim orders?
A Probation Officer may recommend this type of visitation that allow the child to spend nights with the non-custodial parent.
What is residential access?