LEADER 04423nam 22006731 450 001 9910811537903321 005 20200514202323.0 010 $a1-4725-6376-X 010 $a1-280-82928-1 010 $a9786610829286 010 $a1-84731-284-5 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472563767 035 $a(CKB)1000000000338399 035 $a(EBL)295190 035 $a(OCoLC)437181732 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000120925 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143431 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000120925 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10092442 035 $a(PQKB)10470646 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1772394 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1772394 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10276166 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL82928 035 $a(OCoLC)893332044 035 $a(OCoLC)560616679 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09256342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC295190 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL295190 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000338399 100 $a20140929d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChild support $elaw and policy /$fNick Wikeley 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford :$cHart Publishing,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (614 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84113-532-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe moral and legal basis for child support -- The child maintenance obligation and the poor law -- The child maintenance obligation in private law -- The child maintenance obligation in the post-war period -- The Child Support Act 1991 and the agency's troubled early years -- Child support : the international perspective -- Private ordering, child maintenance and the courts -- The personal and territorial scope of the Child Support Act 1991 -- Applying for child support -- The child support formula -- Income and the formula -- Variations on the formula -- Complaints, reviews and appeals -- Collection, arrears and enforcement -- Conclusion : Child support compliance and reform. 330 8 $aWritten 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 addressed: the distinction between applications in 'private' and 'benefit' cases and the extent to which the courts retain a role in child maintenance matters; the basis for, and the justification for, the exception from the obligation for parents with care on benefit to co-operate with the Child Support Agency where they fear 'undue harm or distress'; the assessment of income for the purposes of the formula and the evidential difficulties this entails; the tension between the formula, which ignores the parent with care's income, and the demands of distributive justice; the further conflict between the formula, under which liability is capped only for the very wealthy, and the traditional approach of private law, which is premised on children being entitled to maintenance rather than a share in family wealth; the treatment of special cases under the formula by way of 'variations' (formerly 'departures'); the nature of decision-making and the scope for appeals; and the efficacy of the provisions relating to collection and enforcement. This book has been shortlisted for the 2007 SLSA Book Prize 606 $aChild support$xGovernment policy$zGreat Britain 606 $aChild support$xLaw and legislation$zGreat Britain 606 $2Family law 615 0$aChild support$xGovernment policy 615 0$aChild support$xLaw and legislation 676 $a346.410172 700 $aWikeley$b Nicholas$01625637 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811537903321 996 $aChild support$93961241 997 $aUNINA