Can someone tell me:
If one fails to pay maintenance in a divorce, what will be the legal consequences?
Thanks
joe
Can someone tell me:
If one fails to pay maintenance in a divorce, what will be the legal consequences?
Thanks
joe
The person who is due the money will return to the court which granted the maintenance to ask them to apply legal sanctions to get it.
How exactly that happens depends on where the two parties are and the jurisdiction of the court which made the maintenance order.
Thanks.
Can the person appeal to extend or delay the payment of maintenance?
If the person fails to pay, will he be imprisoned for non-payment?
Jonaslee...
...where are you from and where is your Wife from? ...more importantly, where do you both live now?
Which country's courts was the divorce & maintenance agreement made in? Hong Kong? And where is the person who isn't paying living?
In many countries the court can tell your employer to deduct the payments from your salary before they give it to you.
The divorce and agreement were made in Hong Kong. Wife in Hong Kong. Husband in Malaysia. Husband having great financial difficulty. Husband receiving letter from Legal Aid Department, Hong Kong, asking for payment
And the sooner the better as the previous rate will continue to be calculated until a legal amendment is made.