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Child Support - From: 1998 To: 1998
This page lists 6 cases, and was prepared on 20 May 2019.
T v Child Support Agency Gazette, 07 May 1998
7 May 1998
QBD
Child Support
A putative father has no appeal against incorrect finding of paternity. His only remedy is to apply to the High Court under Ord. 15 r 16 for a declaration of paternity. Similarly there was no right for a father to request a declaration of paternity.
Child Support Act 1991 27
Nicholas Dollar v Child Support Officer and Dorothy Britton [1998] EWCA Civ 942
9 Jun 1998
CA
Child Support
[ Bailii ]
Secretary of State for Social Security v Harmon; Same v Carter; Same v Cocks Gazette, 24 June 1998; Times, 10 June 1998
10 Jun 1998
CA
Child Support, Benefits
The duty of a parent with care to apply for child support applies if he or she is actually paid benefit, irrespective of any possibility that the benefit claim may fall to be challenged. The requirement is that benefits are actually not just lawfully paid.
Child Support Act 1991 6(1)
Regina v Secretary of State for Social Security ex parte Shirley West [1998] EWCA Civ 1821
23 Nov 1998
CA
Child Support
Child Support Act 1991
[ Bailii ]
Regina v Secretary of State for Social Security, ex parte West Times, 26 November 1998
26 Nov 1998
CA
Child Support
An uncontested consent order granting a man parental responsibility was sufficient adjudication that he was indeed the father of the child for the purposes of the Child Support Act despite the absence of any inquiry of fact by the court.
Child Support Act 1991 26(2)
Henderson v Secretary of State for Social Security Times, 01 December 1998
1 Dec 1998
CA
Child Support
A transfer of a share in an equitable interest in a house, is itself an equitable interest in land, and its transfer value could be incorporated in the calculations used to determine the maintenance assessment for child support purposes.
Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992 (1992 No 1815)
