It is a point which is related to the time at which a maintenance order may be made.
The intention is to take action only if the man does not comply with the original maintenance order.
His responsibilities to the second family might make him feel some difficulty in fulfilling the maintenance order.
This can only lead to considerable delays in hearing cases, with consequent hardship for those women seeking to obtain or enforce a maintenance order.
It is often difficult for them to get a maintenance order uplifted not only in line with inflation but in any circumstances.
They drew attention to the fact that we do not even know what is the average amount of maintenance order made.
It produces new criteria for deciding when a maintenance order is to be made.
In that case he can always return to the court and ask for the maintenance order to be varied.
