The Recovery of Maintenance in the EU and Worldwide

PART ONE: COMPARATIVE CONTEXT

1. Cultural Dimensions of Maintenance Law from a Private International Law Perspective
Erik Jayme

PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

2. Introduction to Part Two (International) and Part Three (International and EU)
Paul Beaumont and Lara Walker

3. The Modern History, Evolution and Projected Future of Child Support Enforcement in the United States and Globally: 1975 to 2025
Robert Keith

4. Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Maintenance Orders in Commonwealth African Countries
Richard Frimpong Oppong

5. Recovery of Child Maintenance in South America and in Mercosur's Countries
Nadia de Araujo

6. Enforcing Foreign Maintenance Decisions in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance from an Asian Perspective
James Ding

7. The Potential of the 2007 Child Support Convention: Addressing Global Poverty and Supporting Economic Rights
Maja Groff

8. Migration, Remittances and Child Support
Ann Laquer Estin

9. International Maintenance Cases: Preliminary Research
Hannah Roots

10. Setting Appropriate Child Support Orders and Addressing Barriers: Research and Policy Implications to Improve Payments and Compliance
Mark Takayesu and Steven Eldred

11. Administrative Establishment and Enforcement of Child Support in Norway
Jorid Saue, Floor de Jongh Bekkali, Elisabeth Saettem and Britt Rustad

12. Child Support in Kazakhstan: Case for Accession to the 2007 Hague Maintenance Convention
Milana Karayanidi

13. Maintenance Obligations in the Brazilian Legal System
Inez Lopes

14. Argentina's Regulation of Maintenance Obligations: Implementation of the 2007 Hague Convention
Nieve Rubaja

15. Recovery of Child Support in Nigeria
Olanike Adelakun-Odewale

16. The Interface between Maintenance and Cross-border Surrogacy
Katarina Trimmings

PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN UNION MATTERS

17. Developing an Electronic Case Management and Communication System for the 2007 Hague Child Support Convention and 2009 EU Maintenance Regulation: The iSupport Project
Philippe Lortie

18. Child Maintenance and Authentic Instruments-A German Perspective
Ana-Sabine Boehm, Natalie Faetan and Isabelle Jaeger-Maillet

19. Innovations of the 2007 Hague Maintenance Protocol
Mirela Zupan

PART FOUR: EUROPEAN UNION PERSPECTIVE

20. Setting the Scene-The EU Maintenance Regulation
Burkhard Hess and Stefanie Spancken

21. Empirical Study on the Early Operation of the EU Maintenance Regulation
Lara Walker and Paul Beaumont

22. The Effective Operation of the EU Maintenance Regulation in the Member States
Burkhard Hess and Stefanie Spancken

23. Love and Money: Problems of Characterisation in Matrimonial Property and Maintenance Matters in the European Union
Csongor Istvan Nagy

24. Drawing a Demarcating Line between Spousal Maintenance Obligations and Matrimonial Property in the Context of the New Instruments of European Union Private International Law
Maarja Torga

25. Characterisation within Private International Law: Maintenance or Succession?
Jayne Holliday

26. Choice of Court in Matters Relating to Maintenance Obligations
Matthias Abendroth

27. The Enforcement of Maintenance Decisions in the EU: Requiem for Public Policy? Family Relationships and the (Partial) Abolition of Exequatur
Ilaria Viarengo

28. Jurisdiction, Recognition and Enforcement in Cases of Reimbursement Claims by Public Bodies
Dieter Martiny