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A Practical Guide to Financial Provision for Children under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 2nd ed

A Practical Guide to Financial Provision for Children under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 2nd ed

Author: Katharine Bundell
Publisher: Law Brief Publishing
ISBN: 9781916698772

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781912687473
Published In: May 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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 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.

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.

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.

Chapter One – Introduction: The Purpose of This Guide

Chapter Two – The Statute

Chapter Three – Schedule 1 and Statutory Child Support: A Double Act?

Chapter Four – How Does Schedule 1 Differ From Ancillary Relief?

Chapter Five – The Scope

Chapter Six – What Orders Can Be Made Under Schedule 1?

Chapter Seven – The Parties

Chapter Eight – Blended Families and Morgan v Hill 2006

Chapter Nine – Schedule 1 Outside of the Court Process

Chapter Ten – Schedule 1 Inside the Court Process: Form E (1), Questionnaires and Narrative Statements

Chapter Eleven – Periodical Payments

Chapter Twelve – Lump Sums