CHILD MAINTENANCE

BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORNA CHILD of divorced parents is entitled to receive an advance on maintenance payments from a foreign government in the European Union if one separated parent lives in its country, the European Supreme court has ruled. The court said that "the fact that a person is living in another Member State cannot act as a barrier to the grant of a family benefit."The case involved Anna Humer, the child of Austrian nationals, who moved with her mother to France after her parents' divorce. The father, who remained in Austria, defaulted on ...


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