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Section 114 of The Children Act CAP 141: Financial provisions by step-parents and presumptive guardian

    

(1) The Court may make a maintenance order in respect of a child, including a child of the other parent who has been accepted as a child of the family notwithstanding the absence of an adoption order.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Court shall consider all the circumstances of the case and be guided by the following considerations—
(a) the income or earning capacity, property and other financial resources which the parties or any other person in whose favour the Court proposes to make an order, have or are likely to have in the immediate future;
(b) the financial needs, obligations, or responsibilities which each party has or is likely to have in the immediate future;
(c) the financial needs of the child and the child’s current circumstances; (d) the income, if any, derived from the property of the child;
(e) any physical or mental disabilities, illness or medical condition of the child;
(f) the manner in which the child is being or was expected to be educated or trained;
(g) whether the respondent has assumed responsibility for the maintenance of the child and, if so, the extent to which, and the basis on which, he or she has assumed that responsibility, and the length of the period during which he has met that responsibility;
(h) whether the respondent assumed responsibility for the maintenance of the child knowing that the child was not his child; (i) the liability of any other person to maintain the child; (j) the liability of that person to maintain other children.

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