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Written by one of the UK's leading scholars of welfare law, this book analyses the current child support legislation in its broader historical and social context, synthesising both doctrinal and socio-legal approaches to legal research and scholarship. The book draws on the historical and legal literature on the Poor Law and the development of both the public and private law obligation of child maintenance. Modern child support law must also be considered in the context of both social and demographic changes and in the light of popular norms about child maintenance liabilities. The main part of the book is devoted to an analysis of the modern child support scheme, and the key issues are addr...
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The book presents a new perspective on the Child Support Agency by comparing accounts of former husbands and wives with those of their legal advisers.
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The 'Child Support Handbook' is the definitive guide to the child support scheme, as it applies throughout the UK including Scotland. This edition explains the effect of the Child Support Agency's 'Operational Improvement Scheme', as the child support system prepares for major changes over the next few years.
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The 7th edition of Child Support: The Legislation contains the primary and secondary legislation relating to the child support schemes under both the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 and the Child Support Act 1995, plus commentary and guidance. This book will enable tribunal chairmen and members, appellants and their representatives to deal with cases under both the old and new child support schemes. It: contains a wealth of annotated legislation to guide you through the more complicated areas of the law; legislation governing the older scheme has been reintroduced into this edition, as many cases under this scheme are ongoing, enabling you to work on both schemes using just one book to guide you; provides an updated table of Commission Decisions, Statutory Instruments and statutes showing how the law governing each scheme has been has been interpreted and applied. It is set out in a clear, logical manner to prevent information overload.