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Provisions relating to orders made by magistrates’ courts in matrimonial proceedings
30. Order for maintenance of party to marriage made by magistrates’ court to cease to have effect on remarriage of that party
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An Act to make fresh provision for empowering the court in matrimonial proceedings to make orders ordering either spouse to make financial provision for, or transfer property to, the other spouse or a child of the family, orders for the variation of ante-nuptial and post-nuptial settlements, orders for the custody and education of children and orders varying, discharging or suspending orders made in such proceedings; to make other amendments of the law relating to matrimonial proceedings; to abolish the right to claim restitution of conjugal rights; to declare what interest in property is acquired by a spouse who contributes to its improvement; to make provision as to a spouse’s rights of occupation under section 1 of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 in certain cases; to extend section 17 of the Married Women’s Property Act 1882 and section 7 of the Matrimonial Causes (Property and Maintenance) Act 1958; to amend the law about the property of a person whose marriage is the subject of a decree of judicial separation dying intestate; to abolish the agency of necessity of a wife; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[29th May 1970]
C1Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3
F1Ss. 1-11, 13-29 repealed by Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18), s. 54(1), Sch. 3
F1Ss. 1-11, 13-29 repealed by Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18), s. 54(1), Sch. 3
F1S. 12 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VII
F1Ss. 1-11, 13-29 repealed by Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18), s. 54(1), Sch. 3
Matrimonial Proceedings And Property Act 1970