Child Support: The Legislation (Jacobs)

Please note: the supplement to the 10th edition is due in summer 2012. To order in advance, please call us on 020 7837 7979 or download the order form.

This 10th edition of Child Support: the legislation contains the primary and secondary legislation relating to all three child support schemes under the Child Support Act 1991, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 and the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008, with commentary and guidance. It also contains the rules of procedure for the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal, together with a detailed commentary.

The author provides authoritative analysis of decisions made by the courts and the Upper Tribunal to show how the law governing each scheme has been interpreted and applied. This edition has been updated with all amendments to legislation, and reflects the growing body of caselaw on issues of liability and enforcement.

This book will enable tribunal judges and members, parents and their representatives to deal with cases under all versions of the child support legislation.

Author Edward Jacobs is a Judge of the Upper Tribunal. He is a barrister and was formerly a full-time chairman of child support appeal tribunals and a Child Support Commissioner.

September 2011 978 1 906076 56 6 Paperback, 1100 pp £87.00