Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act, 1989

Child maintenance.

23.—(1) A maintenance or a variation order shall specify each part of a payment under the order that is for the support of a dependent child and may specify the period during the lifetime of the person applying for the order for which so much of a payment under the order as is for the support of a dependent child shall be made.

(2) Conduct of the nature referred to in section 20 (2)(i) or 20 (3) or in section 22 shall not be a ground upon which a court shall refuse to make a maintenance order for the support of a dependent child and shall not be a ground for discharging or varying any part of a maintenance order that provides for the support of such child.