Western Australian Current Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 130

130 .         Effect of death of child, person liable to pay or person entitled to receive — FLA s. 66U

        (1)         A child maintenance order in relation to a child stops being in force on the death of the child.

        (2)         A child maintenance order in relation to a child stops being in force on the death of the person liable to make payments under the order.

        (3)         A child maintenance order in relation to a child stops being in force on the death of the person entitled to receive payments under the order.

        (4)         Subsection (3) does not apply to an order if —

            (a)         the order is expressed to continue in force after the death of the person first entitled to receive payments under the order; and

            (b)         the order specifies the person who is to receive the payments after that death.