Family Law Reform Act 1987
Family Law Reform Act 1987 (1987 c. 42)
- Family Law Reform Act 1987 (1987 c. 42)
- Part I General Principle
- 1 General principle.
- Part II Rights and Duties of Parents etc.
- Parental rights and duties: general
- 2 Construction of enactments relating to parental rights and duties.
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- Parental rights and duties where parents not married
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- 8 Rights where child in care etc.
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- Supplemental
- 17 Abolition of affiliation proceedings.
- Part III Property Rights
- 18 Succession on intestacy.
- 19 Dispositions of property.
- 20 No special protection for trustees and personal representatives.
- 21 Entitlement to grant of probate etc.
- Part IV Determination of Relationships
- 22 Declarations of parentage.
- 23 Provisions as to scientific tests.
- Part V Registration of Births
- 24 Registration of father where parents not married.
- 25 Re-registration where parents not married.
- 26 Re-registration after declaration of parentage.
- Part VI Miscellaneous and Supplemental
- Miscellaneous
- 27 Artificial insemination.
- 28 Children of void marriages.
- 29 Evidence of paternity in civil proceedings.
- Supplemental
- 30 Orders applying section 1 to other enactments.
- 31 Interpretation.
- 32 Text of 1971 Act as amended.
- 33 Amendments, transitional provisions, savings and repeals.
- 34 Short title, commencement and extent.
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 TEXT OF 1971 ACT AS AMENDED
- General principles
- Appointment, removal and powers of guardians
- Orders for custody and financial relief
- Access to children by grandparents
- Jurisdiction and procedure
- Supplementary
- (Formal enacting words)
- General principles
- Principle on which questions relating to custody, upbringing etc. of children are to be decided.
- Appointment, removal and powers of guardians
- Rights of surviving parent as to guardianship.
- Power of father and mother to appoint testamentary guardians.
- Power of court to appoint guardian for child having no parent etc.
- Power of High Court to remove or replace guardian.
- Disputes between joint guardians.
- Orders for custody and financial relief
- Orders for custody on application of either parent.
- Orders for custody in guardianship cases.
- Further provisions relating to orders for custody.
- Orders for financial relief on application of either parent.
- Orders for financial relief in guardianship cases.
- Orders for financial relief for persons over eighteen.
- Duration of orders for periodical payments.
- Matters to which court is to have regard in making orders for financial relief.
- Provisions relating to lump sums.
- Variation etc, of orders for periodical payments.
- Variation of order for secured periodical payments after death of parent.
- Enforcement of orders for custody and maintenance.
- Restriction on removal of child from England and Wales.
- Direction for settlement of instrument by conveyancing counsel.
- Access to children by grandparents
- Access to children by grandparents.
- Jurisdiction and Procedure
- Courts having jurisdiction under this Act.
- Financial provision for child resident in country outside England and Wales.
- Saving for powers of High Court and other courts.
- Supplementary
- Short title, interpretation and extent.
- SCHEDULE 2 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
- The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920 (c.33)
- The Trustee Act 1925 (c.19)
- The Administration of Estates Act 1925 (c.23)
- The National Assistance Act 1948 (c.29)
- The Marriage Act 1949 (c.76)
- The Maintenance Orders Act 1950 (c. 37)
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- The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (c. 20)
- The Maintenance Orders Act 1958 (c. 39)
- The Domestic and Appellate Proceedings (Restriction of Publicity) Act 1968 (c. 63)
- The Family Law Reform Act 1969 (c. 46)
- The Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c.54)
- The Administration of Justice Act 1970 (c.31)
- The Guardianship of Minors Act 1971 (c.3)
- The Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 (c.32)
- The Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c.18)
- The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c.18)
- The Guardianship Act 1973 (c.29)
- The Social Security Act 1975 (c.14)
- The Children Act 1975 (c.72)
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- The Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978 (c.22)
- The Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30)
- The Child Care Act 1980 (c.5)
- The Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c.43)
- The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c.27)
- The Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 (c.60)
- The Social Security Act 1986 (c.50)
- The Family Law Act 1986 (c.55)
- SCHEDULE 3 Transitional Provisions and Savings
- Applications pending under amended or repealed enactments
- References to provisions of Adoption Act 1976
- Affiliation orders
- Property rights
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- SCHEDULE 4 Repeals
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