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Family Law Reform Act 1987

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12Orders for financial relief on application of either parent

After section 11A of the 1971 Act there shall be inserted the following section—

“11BOrders for financial relief on application of either parent.

(1)The court may, on the application of either parent of a child, make—

(a)in the case of proceedings in the High Court or a county court, one or more of the orders mentioned in subsection (2) of this section;

(b)in the case of proceedings in a magistrates' court, one or both of the orders mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (c) of that subsection;

and an order mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of that subsection may be varied or discharged on the application of either parent or, after the death of either parent, on the application of any guardian appointed under this Act.

(2)The orders referred to in subsection (1) of this section are—

(a)an order requiring one parent to make to the other parent for the benefit of the child, or to the child, such periodical payments, and for such term, as may be specified in the order;

(b)an order requiring one parent to secure to the other parent for the benefit of the child, or to secure to the child, such periodical payments, and for such term, as may be so specified;

(c)an order requiring one parent to pay to the other parent for the benefit of the child, or to the child, such lump sum as may be so specified;

(d)an order requiring either parent to transfer to the other parent for the benefit of the child, or to the child, such property as may be so specified, being property to which the first-mentioned parent is entitled, either in possession or reversion;

(e)an order requiring that a settlement of such property as may be so specified, being property to which either parent is so entitled, be made to the satisfaction of the court for the benefit of the child.”

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