Index

• Author: Fara Brown
• Profession: Attorney-at-law practising in Jamaica for over 30 years
• Pages: 403-414

Index

Acceptance: of parental

responsibility, 88–89

Access: custody and, 284–89; orders,

295

Adoption, 258, 306–11; applications

for, 380; legal effects of, 309–10;

orders, 308–309

Adoption Board, 307–10

Afdavit of service: in divorce, 95–97,

105

Afliation Act, 318–20; and evidence

of paternity, 332

Afnity: legal concept of, 14

Age of consent: nullity and the, 63

Agreements: regarding matrimonial

property, 205–206

AH v JH: and access, 286, 289

Allen v Mesquita: and extension

of time for property division

application, 219, 220

Allerdyce v Mitchell: and mistaken

identity, 51

Ancillary orders, 296–97; Supreme

Court and, 381

Ancillary relief: decree absolute and,

108–11; divorce and, 113; nullity

and, 58; property and, 108–109

Annulment: of a marriage, 32–35

Antoine v Antoine: and right the

spousal maintenance, 130

Anguilla: Minors Act, 260

Antigua and Barbuda: Divorce Act,

55; legal age for marriage in,

12–13; Matrimonial Causes Act,

71; Minors Act,260

Applications: custody, 290–91, 379;

declaration of paternity, 380;

maintenance, 378; property

ownership, 380; protection from

domestic violence, 379;

Applications for division of property:

contribut1ons to, 208–10; types

of, 207–209, 220–24

Apportionment: of child

maintenance, 139–40

Apprenticeship system: and sexual

abuse, 3

Articulo mortis: marriages in, 15

Assisted Reproductive Treatment

(ART): and parentage, 327–28,

339

Australian law: irretrievable

breakdown and, 78–79; on

separation, 80

Automatic and acquired parentage,

339–40

Barbados: divorce law, 68–69;

Family Law Act, 70–71; marriage

counseling in, 72; restriction on

divorce in, 75

Bastardy laws, 118, 316, 319–21

Belize: children’s legislation in, 374–

75; custody in, 274–75; domestic

violence legislation, 253; legal

age for marriage in, 13;

Bellinger v Bellinger: and sex v

gender, 54

Belnavis v Belnavis: application of

the partition Act in, 215

Bernard v Bernard: application

of common law in division of

property in, 215