| 单词 | maintenance pending suit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaintenance pending suit maintenance pending suit n. Law a court order, directing that temporary maintenance payments be made by one spouse or another during the hearing of a petition for divorce or separation. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] brief1330 precept1427 court order1650 maintenance pending suit1952 1952 All Eng. Law Rep. 1 396 The proper way to deal with the situation, if the wife chose not to apply for an increase in the amount of maintenance,..was to go to the Divorce Court and apply for maintenance pending suit. 1970 Internat. & Company Law Q. 4th Ser. 19 163 All payments are to be called ‘financial provision’ except ‘maintenance pending suit’. 1975 Halsbury's Laws Eng. XIII. 376 On petition for divorce, nullity of marriage or judicial separation, the court may make an order for maintenance pending suit, that is to say, an order requiring either party to the marriage to make the other such periodical payments for his or her maintenance and for such term,..ending with the date of the determination of the suit, as the court thinks reasonable. 1994 G. Davis et al. Simple Quarrels vii. 151 On our evidence we would say that applications for maintenance pending suit are of real utility only in exceptional cases. < as lemmas |
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