{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-9.26D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-9.26D.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/9.26D",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9.26D",
  "heading": "Court officer to notify subsequent marriage or formation of civil partnership of a person entitled to payments under a maintenance order",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where—\n(a) there is an order of a type referred to in paragraph (4) which requires payments to be made to the court or to an officer of the court; and\n(b) the court is notified in writing by—\n(i) the person entitled to receive payments under the order;\n(ii) the person required to make payments under the order; or\n(iii) the personal representative of such a person,\nthat the person entitled to receive payments under the order has subsequently married or formed a civil partnership.\n(2) The court officer will, where practicable, notify in writing the courts referred to in paragraph (3) of the notification of the subsequent marriage or formation of a civil partnership.\n(3) The courts to be notified are—\n(a) any other court which has made an order of a type referred to in paragraph (4);\n(b) in the case of a provisional order made under section 3 of the 1920 Act or section 3 of the 1972 Act, the court which confirmed the order;\n(c) if an order of a type referred to in paragraph (4) has been transmitted abroad for registration under section 2 of the 1920 Act or section 2 of the 1972 Act, the court in which the order is registered; and\n(d) any other court in which an application to enforce the order has been made.\n(4) The orders are—\n(a) those to which the following provisions apply—\n(i) section 38 of the 1973 Act;\n(ii) section 4(2) of the 1978 Act;\n(iii) paragraph 65 of Schedule 5 to the 2004 Act; and\n(iv) paragraph 26(2) of Schedule 6 to the 2004 Act; and\n(b) an attachment of earnings order made to secure payments under an order referred to in sub-paragraph (a).\n(5) In this rule—\n“the 1920 Act” means the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1920; and\n“the 1972 Act” means the Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 9.26C-9.26E inserted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/667), rules 1, 13 (with rule 45)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/9.26D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:56.480940+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."
}