The Court's New Attitude on Parent's taking Responsibility for their Kids!
As most of you know, maintenance is normally a word people bandy about in housework or movable repairs. Of course, on the more serious note, it also relates to a duty by one person to support another person or people. This duty of support can either result from an act of volition (i.e. marriage or adoption) or from conception of life (i.e. a child or parent). They are reciprocal duties of support that each party owes to the other. The two differ in minor respects but the concepts are (for this purpose) essentially very similar. Support depends on a lifestyle to which a person has become accustomed (when married and subsequently divorced) or depends on the needs of that person with whom a duty exists (when dealing with a child born out of wedlock or your own parents). However, as with lifestyles these days, they are fickle and subject to changes in one's own circumstances. If this occurs, it is up to the person who suffers those changes to approach the court for a variation in su