Part 2Civil partnership: England and Wales

Chapter 5Children

78Financial provision for children

1

Amend Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act (financial provision for children) as follows.

2

In paragraph 2(6) (meaning of “periodical payments order”) after paragraph (d) insert—

e

Part 1 or 9 of Schedule 5 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (financial relief in the High Court or a county court etc.);

f

Schedule 6 to the 2004 Act (financial relief in the magistrates' courts etc.),

3

In paragraph 15(2) (person with whom a child lives or is to live) after “husband or wife” insert “ or civil partner ”.

4

For paragraph 16(2) (extended meaning of “parent”) substitute—

2

In this Schedule, except paragraphs 2 and 15, “parent” includes—

a

any party to a marriage (whether or not subsisting) in relation to whom the child concerned is a child of the family, and

b

any civil partner in a civil partnership (whether or not subsisting) in relation to whom the child concerned is a child of the family;

and for this purpose any reference to either parent or both parents shall be read as a reference to any parent of his and to all of his parents.