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

No agreement on the part of the woman to take a sum down in discharge of the liability of the father is a bar to the making of an affiliation order.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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

From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various

At the trial, having, it seemed, come to the conclusion that this wicked slander would not enable him to escape an affiliation order, he again frankly admitted his parentage.

From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider

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

From Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)