affiliation order


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Related to affiliation order: maintenance order

affiliation order

n
(Law) law (formerly) an order made by a magistrates' court that a man adjudged to be the father of an illegitimate child shall contribute a specified periodic sum towards the child's maintenance
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There are no details of my father's name on the birth certificate, although there was an affiliation order (now known as a maintenance order) showing the father of the first child paid her five shillings a week."
Finding out I was adopted hasn't made me question my identity, I'll always be who I am now; GRANDAD'S SHOCK DISCOVERY AGED 65 WHILE TRACING FAMILY TREE
There are no details of my father's name on the birth certificate, although there was an affiliation order (now known as a maintenance order) showing that the father of Joan's first child paid her five shillings a week.
I found out I was adopted by accident... Now I need to find the family I never knew; Grandfather-of-eight Keith Harper accidentally discovered that he had been adopted when he was a baby earlier this year. The 66-year-old, from Kings Norton Birmingham, tells ZOE CHAMBERLAIN how he is trying to trace his biological family

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