{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-78.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "section/78",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Financial provision for children",
  "text": "(1) Amend Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act (financial provision for children) as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 2(6) (meaning of “periodical payments order”) after paragraph (d) insert—\n“(e) Part 1 or 9 of Schedule 5 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (financial relief in the High Court or a county court etc.);\n(f) Schedule 6 to the 2004 Act (financial relief in the magistrates' courts etc.),”.\n(3) In paragraph 15(2) (person with whom a child lives or is to live) after “husband or wife” insert “ or civil partner ”.\n(4) For paragraph 16(2) (extended meaning of “parent”) substitute—\n“(2) In this Schedule, except paragraphs 2 and 15, “parent” includes—\n(a) any party to a marriage (whether or not subsisting) in relation to whom the child concerned is a child of the family, and\n(b) any civil partner in a civil partnership (whether or not subsisting) in relation to whom the child concerned is a child of the family;\nand for this purpose any reference to either parent or both parents shall be read as a reference to any parent of his and to all of his parents.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/section/78",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:53.191982+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}