SCHEDULE 6 Financial Relief in Magistrates' Courts etc [SCHEDULE 6 Financial relief: provision corresponding to provision made by the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978] | Part 5 | Commencement And Duration Of Orders Under Parts 1, 2 And 3 | Civil Partnership Act 2004 C33

Part 5 Commencement and Duration of Orders under Parts 1, 2 and 3

Civil Partnership Act 2004 (2004 c 33) | Legislation

Part 5 Commencement and Duration of Orders under Parts 1, 2 and 3

Duration of periodical payments order for a civil partner

(1) The court may specify in a periodical payments order made under paragraph 2(1)(a) or Part 3 in favour of a civil partner such term as it thinks fit, except that the term must not—

(a) begin before the date of the making of the application for the order, or

(b) extend beyond the death of either of the civil partners.

(2) If—

(a) a periodical payments order is made under paragraph 2(1)(a) or Part 3 in favour of one of the civil partners, and

(b) the civil partnership is subsequently dissolved or annulled but the order continues in force,

the periodical payments order ceases to have effect (regardless of anything in it) on the formation of a subsequent civil partnership or marriage by that civil partner, except in relation to any arrears due under the order on the date of that event.