The recovery of maintenance in the EU and worldwide / edited by Paul Beaumont, Burkhard Hess, Lara Walker and Stefanie Spancken.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Foreword; Editors' Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Part One: Comparative Context; 1 Cultural Dimensions of Maintenance Law from a Private International Law Perspective; I. Introduction; II. Private International Law; III. Distinction between Spousal and Child Maintenance; IV. Concluding Remarks; Part Two: International Perspective; 2 Introduction to Part Two (International) and Part Three (International and EU); I. International; II. International and EU.

3 The Modern History, Evolution and Projected Future of Child Support Enforcement in the United States and Globally: 1975 to 2025I. Introduction; II. The Child Support Enforcement Programme Evolves: 1980-88; III. Mandatory Wage Withholding, Statewide Guidelines and Automated Date Processing Systems; IV. 1996-Welfare Reform-Child Support, an Integral Part of a Plan for Family Self-sufficiency; V. Strong Fiscal Commitment Plus Accountability; VI. Where Will the Child Support Enforcement Programme Go from Here? Globalisation and Interoperability.

VII. Where the 2007 Maintenance Convention Falls Short and How it May Nonetheless be Made to Work through International Cooperation and Creative SolutionsVIII. Conclusion; 4 Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Maintenance Orders in Commonwealth African Countries; I. Introduction; II. The Common Law Regime for Enforcing Foreign Maintenance Orders; III. Statutory Regimes for Enforcing Maintenance Orders; IV. Participation in International Initiatives; V. Conclusion; 5 Recovery of Child Maintenance in South America and in Mercosur's Countries; I. Introduction.

II. Global and Regional InitiativesIII. The New York Convention and its Application in Brazil; IV. The Inter-American Convention; V. Mercosur; VI. Conclusion; 6 Enforcing Foreign Maintenance Decisions in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance from an Asian Perspective; I. Introduction; II. Current Situation in the HKSAR; III. 2007 Convention; IV. Conclusion.

7 The Potential of the 2007 Child Support Convention: Addressing Global Poverty and Supporting Economic RightsI. Introduction; II. The Innovations of the Hague 2007 Convention; III. International Human Rights Law Context; IV. The Economics of Child Support and Maintenance; V. Maximising the Impact of the 2007 Child Support Convention; 8 Migration, Remittances and Child Support; I. Introduction; II. Remittances and Financial Transfers; III. Global Migration Patterns; IV. Public and Private Support for Families; V. Implementing the 2007 Convention; VI. Remittances and Child Support.

This book grew out of a major EU funded project on the Hague Maintenance Convention of 2007 and on the EU Maintenance Regulation of 2009. It is the first study to look carefully at both of the new cross-border maintenance regimes globally and in Europe.

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