Maintenance Matters: A Guide to Periodical Payments on Divorce and Dissolution of Civil Partnership

How to use The Guide The historical perspective: maintenance, alimony and periodical payments from medieval England to modern-day proposals for reform A synopsis: the orders and issues Failure to provide reasonable maintenance Maintenance pending suit Maintenance pending suit, costs allowances and orders for payment in respect of legal services Needs, budgets and expenditure: exaggeration and broad-brushes versus evidence and realism The basics of periodical payments orders: absolutes, game rules and forms The quantification of orders for periodical payments Bonus payments and periodical payments Terminating financial dependency: the immediate and deferred clean break and [non]-extendable term orders Orders for nominal periodical payments: justification and transmutability Bankruptcy and periodical payments The impact of remarriage and cohabitation on orders for periodical payments Duxbury calculations: the fable of the 'tool' and the 'paradox' Orders to provide security for periodical payments Variation, discharge, suspension and revival : quantum and term Capitalisation upon an application to vary a periodical payments order Pension orders and periodical payments: attachment, sharing and interaction Periodical payments for the benefit of a child: school fees, disability expenses, top-up assessments and written agreements Maintenance agreements and MCA 1973, ss 34-35 Enforcement of maintenance orders and arrears within England & Wales Appendix