Social
welfare benefits
Where a person, who is entitled to claim maintenance
from another, applies for social welfare payments,
the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs
may require that person to apply for maintenance.
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Variation
or discharge of maintenance order
A person paying or receiving maintenance may reapply
to the court that made the maintenance order for a
variation or discharge of the order. Variation refers
to a change in the amount of maintenance, for example,
a party might seek a greater amount. Discharging a
maintenance order means ending the obligation to pay.
Generally, these applications are made where there
has been a change in either parties' circumstances
since the order was first made.
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Maintenance
and Marriage
If the mother marries a man other than the father
of the child, but does not adopt the child, then the
father may still be obliged to maintain the child.
If the child is adopted the maintenance obligation
of the father ceases.
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Maintenance
against persons outside Ireland
It is possible to get and enforce a maintenance order
against persons living in certain foreign countries.
If the other parent lives in the UK you can apply
for maintenance to the local district court in Ireland.
You must have an address for the father in order that
a summons can be services. The court clerk will take
you through the process.
If
the other parent lives in any other country contact
the Central Authority for Maintenance Recovery.
If the other parents country is a signatory to the
UN Convention on maintenance Recovery or is a "designated
jurisdiction" then you will be asked to complete
an application form which the Central Authority for
Maintenance Recovery will transmit to the relevant
authority in the country in which the other parent
resides. Then the process of seeking maintenance will
begin. It should be noted that it is likely to be
a lengthy process. Generally there is no cost involved.
Check this out: (Recovering
Maintenance from Abroad)
CENTRAL
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE RECOVERY
43/49 Mespil Road, Dublin 4.
Tel: 01 - 667 0344.
E-mail: maintenance_recovery@justice.ie
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Lump
Sum for Birth/Funeral Expenses
The District Court may make a lump sum order not
exceeding €2000.00 in respect of birth expenses
of a dependent child and €2000.00 in respect
of funeral expenses of a dependent child.
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Taxation
A separated couple are still spouses. They may continue
to be taxed as a married couple (if they are both
living in the State). Alternatively, a spouse may
decide to be taxed as a separated person.
Maintenance payments are not tax deductible.
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Divorced
person
A
divorced person is a single person and is taxed as
such.
Full
details of the different taxation options, which change
annually, are available from the Revenue
Commissioners. >>>Click
Here<<<
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Appeals
If you wish to appeal the decision of the court you
can do so within 14 days
or
apply
for extension of time to appeal.
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Maintenance
and the One-parent Family Payment
An unmarried parent claiming One-Parent Family Payment
will be required to seek maintenance from the other
parent and OFP will be reduced accordingly if maintenance
is paid.
However, you will be allowed to keep 50% of the maintenance,
any rent or mortgage paid can be offset against the
other 50% of the maintenance.
Read the link below:
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Restriction
on Disposal of Household Chattels
When it appears to the Court, on application of a
spouse, that there are reasonable grounds for believing
that the other spouse intends to sell, lease, pledge,
charge or otherwise dispose of or to remove such a
number or proportion of the household chattels in
a Family home as would be likely to make it difficult
for the applicant spouse or a dependant child of the
family to reside in the family home without undue
hardship, the Court may by order prohibit on such
terms as it may see fit, the other spouse from making
such intended disposition or removal. The above restriction
also applies where matrimonial proceedings have been
instituted by either spouse and applies until the
proceedings have been finally determined unless the
spouse consents or the Court grants permission to
do so.
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