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JAM-2005-L-73665
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Title_of_text
Maintenance Act, 2005 (No. 30 of 2005).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Jamaica
Subjects (Classification)
Civil, commercial and family law
Adopted on (Date of text)
2005-12-06
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
Provides obligations between spouses to maintain each other as well as on parents to maintain their children and on persons to maintain their parents and grandparents. The Act also repeals the old Maintenance Act and the Affiliation Act and amends the Matrimonial Causes Act.
Serial region
Serial title
Jamaica Gazette Supplement, Bills and Acts
Date
2005-12-19
Volume
Vol. CXXVIII
Number
No. 36
Page range
23 pages