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Under the Singapore laws, there can be no order for a wife to pay maintenance to her husband. Spousal maintenance is therefore encompasses orders pertaining to a husband’s maintenance of his wife or former wife. Maintenance payments may be either or both lumpsum or periodic maintenance and may be made during the course of the marriage or when granting or subsequent to the granting of a divorce, judical separation or nullity of marriage.
Maintenance of children is a joint responsibility of both parents. The Family Court often also hears application for maintenance of children.
We at Mirchandani & Partners regularly assist clients in filing applications for maintenance (either by way of summons application or as ancillary matters in divorce proceedings) or for the enforcement of maintenance orders in the Family Court.
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