The English court can sever parts of a foreign judgment for the purposes of enforcement proceedings, i.e. it can
enforce the payment obligations set out in the foreign judgment, disregarding any other parts of the foreign judgment which do not constitute an obligation to pay a specified sum of money.
Not exact matches
What if every
payment obligation could be automatically
enforced without human involvement?
The written law setting out a three - year time period to bring an action to
enforce spousal support
payments is found at A.R.S. § 25 - 553A: The person to whom the spousal maintenance
obligation is owed may file a request for judgment for spousal maintenance arrearages not later than three years after the date the spousal maintenance order terminates.
«The court will retain jurisdiction to
enforce payment of debt
obligations, in the event a party files bankruptcy, including, but not limited to, the ability to determine the debt assigned is in the nature of Maintenance, necessity or support and is therefore non dischargeable in bankruptcy, and / or making a future spousal support order, regardless of the spousal support order set forth below under FOURTH: SPOUSAL SUPPORT.»
For the most part, however, because
enforcing debts against state governments is so difficult, transactions are structured as much as possible to prevent the need to
enforce debts in that way through (1) legal limitations on governmental liability, (2) legislative budget rules requiring interest on debt and currently due principal
payments to be made first, (3) third - party bonding of state and local governmental construction projects, (4) the creation of publicly owned corporations whose debts can only be collected out of the corporation's assets and revenues, and (5) avoidance of trade credit
obligations by paying bills in cash.
305 ILCS 5/11-13: Conditions for receipt of vendor
payments — Limitation period for vendor action Vendors seeking to
enforce an
obligation of a governmental unit or the Illinois Department of Public Aid for goods and services furnished to recipients and subject to a vendor
payment must commence their actions within 1 year from the accrual of the cause of action.
However, if people obliged to pay support do not make the
payments on time, then FMEP will takes steps to
enforce child support and spousal support
obligations.
121 (1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), where a person obtains an order to
enforce an
obligation in a foreign currency, the order shall require
payment of an amount in Canadian currency sufficient to purchase the amount of the
obligation in the foreign currency at a bank in Ontario listed in Schedule I to the Bank Act (Canada) at the close of business on the first day on which the bank quotes a Canadian dollar rate for purchase of the foreign currency before the day
payment of the
obligation is received by the creditor.
(12) «Obligee» means the person to whom
payments are made pursuant to an order establishing,
enforcing, or modifying an
obligation for alimony, for child support, or for alimony and child support.
(20) «State Disbursement Unit» means the unit established and operated by the Title IV - D agency to provide one central address for collection and disbursement of child support
payments made in cases
enforced by the department pursuant to Title IV - D of the Social Security Act and in cases not being
enforced by the department in which the support order was initially issued in this state on or after January 1, 1994, and in which the obligor's child support
obligation is being paid through income deduction order.
(13) «Obligor» means a person responsible for making
payments pursuant to an order establishing,
enforcing, or modifying an
obligation for alimony, for child support, or for alimony and child support.