VPRS 17936 Court of Petty Sessions/Magistrates' Court Maintenance and Family Law Register

This series consists of volumes recording Court of Petty Sessions/Magistrates' Court maintenance and family law hearings held at Traralgon Courts [VA 4019].The Maintenance Act 1928 established provisions for maintenance support to be provided by spouses who had left their partners or children without means of support. Courts of Petty Sessions were empowered to hear complaints regarding desertion and to set levels and enforce the payment of maintenance. The Maintenance Act 1965 is still in force in Victoria (as at 1992). The Commonwealth Family Law Act 1975 also has provision for the granting of maintenance and most orders are now made under this Act.Most courts maintained a separate register for maintenance and family law matters, although the register was in the same format as all other petty sessions court registers. Maintenance and Family Law Registers were used to record three types of maintenance matters: applications for the court to set a level of maintenance; applications for the court to vary the level of maintenance and applications for the court to enforce payments to be made where maintenance orders had been breached. Failure to comply resulted in the imprisonment of the defendant.Maintenance and Family Law Registers give details of the names of the complainant and the defendant, the nature of the matter before the court and the court's decision.

本系列包含记录Traralgon法院[VA 4019]小额审判庭/治安法院赡养与家庭法听证会的卷宗。1928年《赡养法案》确立条款，规定离开伴侣或未为子女提供生活来源的配偶需支付赡养费。小额审判庭有权审理遗弃相关申诉，设定赡养金额度并强制执行支付。1965年《赡养法案》在维多利亚州（截至1992年）仍然有效。1975年《联邦家庭法法案》同样包含赡养授予条款，如今大多数命令均依据该法案作出。多数法院为赡养及家庭法事项单独设立登记册，尽管其格式与其他小额审判庭登记册相同。赡养与家庭法登记册用于记录三类赡养事项：申请法院设定赡养金额度、申请法院变更赡养金额度，以及申请法院强制执行已违反的赡养令支付。未遵守规定将导致被告入狱。