It is often difficult for them to get a maintenance order uplifted not only in line with inflation but in any circumstances.
This can only lead to considerable delays in hearing cases, with consequent hardship for those women seeking to obtain or enforce a maintenance order.
The maintenance order will reflect his financial circumstances.
One method is not to hamper the court in any way in the variation of a maintenance order.
With two minor exceptions, the courts will have no power to make, vary or revoke a child maintenance order.
The intention is to take action only if the man does not comply with the original maintenance order.
Generally a woman—occasionally a man; sometimes a guardian or parent—has to go to court to secure enforcement of a maintenance order.
That is an essential prerequisite to the making of a maintenance order.
