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Child Maintenance claims in South Africa
What is Child maintenance?
Child maintenance (as opposed to spousal maintenance ) involves the ongoing obligation to make periodic payments to sustain a child or children (often after a divorce action, but parents are by law liable to pay maintenance even if the parents were never married). Child maintenance payment amounts are decided on by South African courts and take into account the monthly earnings of both parents.
Legal framework for child maintenance
In South Africa maintenance is paid according to the Maintenance Act, and it involves obtaining a maintenance order from the court and then discharging it. There may also be orders for the increase or reduction of child maintenance.
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Info on Child Maintenance
If children are involved in a divorce; then child maintenance issues are an ongoing saga until they are able to support themselves.
Best Maintenance Attorneys in Cape Town .
Pregnant with Unborn child : divorce summons should be drafted to allow for maintenance. .
Proof of paternity & maintenance
Adopted child maintenance obligation same as for biological child.
Handicapped child: maintenance considerations
Can one claim Child Maintenance without Custody ?
Grandparents' rights to custody & maintenance obligations
Binding maintenance payer's estate in the event of their death .
Maintenance assessment:
School fees payment responsibility post divorce
Arrest after failing to pay maintenance
Child maintenance - payable to what age ? Maintenance for children over 18 .Children suing for maintenance .
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Right to visit children after divorce .
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