affiliation order

American  

noun

British Law.

1. a court order requiring the father of an illegitimate child to make child-support payments.

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affiliation order British  

noun

1. law (formerly) an order made by a magistrates' court that a man adjudged to be the father of an illegitimate child shall contribute a specified periodic sum towards the child's maintenance

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Etymology

Origin of affiliation order

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Where there are some hundreds, perhaps thousands, of young uneducated girls, without work to occupy their time, there must of course exist a certain amount of lax conduct; but never, or extremely rarely, does a girl apply to the magistrates for an affiliation order, while from agricultural parishes such applications are common.

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An order of discharge releases the debtor from all his obligations except debts due to the crown, and other obligations of a public character which can only be discharged with the consent of the Treasury, debts incurred by fraud, and judgment debts in an action for seduction or as a co-respondent in a matrimonial suit or under an affiliation order, which are only released to such extent and subject to such conditions as the court may expressly order.

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The cost of the affiliation order, when obtained, is 9/-.

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The maximum amount that up to the present time has been allowed under an Affiliation Order is 5/- a week, such payments to continue until the child reaches the age of sixteen years.

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That allowance is eighteenpence, being less than one third of the standard allowance for an illegitimate child under an affiliation order.

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