FAQ On Claiming For Maintenance By Committal Proceedings

After months of waiting, you finally received your divorce order. In the divorce order, your former spouse promised to pay you spousal maintenance and child maintenance every month. At first, your spouse paid the maintenance on time every month. However, one year later, he started paying maintenance late, giving various excuses and only after you kept chasing for the payments. Eventually, the payments stopped altogether and he ignored your calls and messages.

What can you do to claim for the maintenance that you were supposed to receive? In this FAQ, we will briefly explain one of the most common methods that can be used to claim for arrears in maintenance – committal proceedings.