Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020

27 (1) Section 28 (duration of continuing financial provision orders in favour of party to marriage, and effect of remarriage or formation of civil partnership) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) in the words before paragraph (a), for “grant of a decree of divorce or nullity of marriage” substitute “making of a divorce or nullity of marriage order”;

(b) in paragraph (a), for “grant of a decree of divorce or nullity of marriage,” substitute “making of a divorce or nullity of marriage order,” and after “favour the” insert “periodical payments”;

(c) in paragraph (b)—

(i) for “grant of such a decree,” substitute “making of a divorce or nullity of marriage order,”;

(ii) after “favour the” insert “secured periodical payments”.

(3) In subsection (1A)—

(a) for “grant of a decree of divorce or nullity of marriage,” substitute “making of a divorce or nullity of marriage order,”;

(b) after “in the” insert “periodical payments or secured periodical payments”.

(4) In subsection (2)—

(a) for “grant of a decree of divorce or nullity of marriage,” substitute “making of a divorce or nullity of marriage order,”;

(b) for “order continues in force, the order” substitute “periodical payments or secured periodical payments order continues in force, that order”.

(5) In subsection (3)—

(a) for “grant of a decree” substitute “grant or making of a decree or order”;

(b) for “grant of that decree,” substitute “grant or making of that decree or order,”.

(6) At the end insert—

“(4) See also section 52A (interpretation of certain references to divorce orders, nullity of marriage orders and judicial separation orders).”