Rule 2.70 Request for periodical payments order at same rate as order for maintenance pending suit [or outcome of proceedings ]

Where at or after the date of a decree nisi of divorce or nullity of marriage [^f1 or a conditional order of dissolution or nullity of civil partnership] an order for maintenance pending suit [ or maintenance pending outcome of proceedings, as the case may be,] is in force, the party in whose favour the order was made may, if he has made an application for an order for periodical payments for himself in his petition or answer, as the case may be, request the Master in writing to make such an order (in this rule referred to as a “corresponding order”) providing for payments at the same rate as those provided for by the order for maintenance pending suit [ or outcome of proceedings].

Where such a request is made, the applicant shall serve on the other spouse [ or civil partner, as the case may be,] a notice in Form M17 requiring him, if he objects to the making of a corresponding order, to give notice to that effect to the proper officer or chief clerk, as the case may be, and to the applicant, within 14 days after service of the notice in Form M17.

If the other spouse [ or civil partner] does not give notice of objection within the time aforesaid the Master may make a corresponding order without further notice to that spouse [ or civil partner] and without requiring the attendance of the applicant or his solicitor.