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Maintenance orders: Most applicants are wives
Court figures reveal for first time that two in three applying for financial support are still married
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Figures released for the first time by the Family Justice Courts (FJC) show that the bulk of applicants seeking maintenance orders are women still married to their husbands.
In fact, two in three of the 1,315 applications filed, on average, each year between 2016 and 2018 were by wives against their husbands for financial support for themselves or their children.
