A Practical Guide to Financial Provision for Children under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 - Second Edition

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This is the second and updated edition of a practitioner's guide to running a Schedule 1 case. It is written for those who consider themselves family practitioners and are comfortable with financial remedy work. It is not an academic tome or discursive legal text but a guide. It is written in a relaxed style and is intended to take you from the time when the client arrives with their problems to the final award. It set out the relevant bits of statute and illustrates how that is applied with up to date case law. It also focuses heavily on practice points considering tactics strategies common arguments and regular pitfalls.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This book takes you through the procedural steps of running or defending such an application from the form filling and pleadings to evidence gathering managing a client's expectations advising on outcome and framing a final order. It sets out the legal context in detail both totemic and recent cases big money and modest assets so that you always have a legal authority for the point you wish to run. It explores the inter-relationship between Schedule 1 and trusts of land cases and has a useful and detailed chapter on all of the basics of TLATA estoppel and s 37 MPPA 1970 both procedure and legal principles so that you can advise clients on this aspect and run a parallel case with confidence.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Ultimately the book is a plea to practitioners to make more and better use of the unloved but rather helpful Schedule 1 to have confidence in it and not to save it just for special occasions.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>CONTENTS</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>1: Introduction: The Purpose of This Guide</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>2: The Statute</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>3: Schedule 1 and Statutory Child Support: A Double Act?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>4: How Does Schedule 1 Differ From Ancillary Relief?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>5: The Scope</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>6: What Orders Can Be Made Under Schedule 1?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>7: The Parties</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>8: Blended Families and Morgan v Hill 2006</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>9: Schedule 1 Outside of the Court Process</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>10: Schedule 1 Inside the Court Process: Form E (1) Questionnaires and Narrative Statements</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>11: Periodical Payments</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>12: Lump Sums</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>13: Costs</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>14: Property Settlement and Transfer</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>15: Subsequent Orders</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>16: Trusts of Land Claims</span></p>