{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/22",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-proceedings-and-magistrates-courts-act-1978",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Grounds of application for financial provision.",
  "text": "Either party to a marriage may apply to the family court for an order under section 2 of this Act on the ground that the other party to the marriage ... —\n(a) has failed to provide reasonable maintenance for the applicant; or\n(b) has failed to provide, or to make a proper contribution towards, reasonable maintenance for any child of the family; or\n(c) has behaved in such a way that the applicant cannot reasonably be expected to live with the respondent; or\n(d) has deserted the applicant.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 68; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (c. 42, SIF 49:3), ss. 46(1), 48(3), Sch. 1 para. 21"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed (prosp.)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/27",
      "affecting_title": "Family Law Act 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/22/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:00.803749+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."
}