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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Family Law Reform Act 1987

1987 CHAPTER 42

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    General Principle

    1. 1. General principle

  2. Part II

    Rights and Duties of Parents etc

    1. Parental rights and duties: general

      1. 2. Construction of enactments relating to parental rights and duties

      2. 3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. Parental rights and duties where parents not married

      1. 4.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 6.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      4. 7.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5. 8. Rights where child in care etc

      6. 9.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. . .

      1. 10.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 11.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. . .

      1. 12.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 13.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 14.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. . .

      1. 15.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 16.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    6. Supplemental

      1. 17. Abolition of affiliation proceedings

  3. Part III

    Property Rights

    1. 18. Succession on intestacy

    2. 19. Dispositions of property

    3. 20. No special protection for trustees and personal representatives

    4. 21. Entitlement to grant of probate etc

  4. Part IV

    Determination of Relationships

    1. 22. Declarations of parentage

    2. 23. Provisions as to scientific tests

  5. Part V

    Registration of Births

    1. 24. Registration of father where parents not married

    2. 25. Re-registration where parents not married

    3. 26. Re-registration after declaration of parentage

  6. Part VI

    Miscellaneous and Supplemental

    1. Miscellaneous

      1. 27. Artificial insemination

      2. 28. Children of void marriages

      3. 29. Evidence of paternity in civil proceedings

    2. Supplemental

      1. 30. Orders applying section 1 to other enactments

      2. 31. Interpretation

      3. 32.Text of 1971 Act as amended

      4. 33. Amendments, transitional provisions, savings and repeals

      5. 34. Short title, commencement and extent

  7. SCHEDULE 1

    TEXT OF 1971 ACT AS AMENDED

  8. SCHEDULE 2

    MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

  9. SCHEDULE 3

    Transitional Provisions and Savings

  10. SCHEDULE 4

    Repeals

An Act to reform the law relating to the consequences of birth outside marriage; to make further provision with respect to the rights and duties of parents and the determination of parentage; and for connected purposes.

[15th May 1987]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act restricted by S.I. 1989/382, art. 3, Sch. 2 para. 1

Commencement Information

I1Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 34(2)

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