Litigation Letter
Enforcing child maintenance
Kehoe v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2005] UKHL 48
The House of Lords upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision that the inability of a mother to personally enforce arrears of maintenance
arising under a maintenance assessment under the Child Support Act 1991 did not engage her rights under article 6 of the European
Convention on Human Rights. The Child Support Act 1991 had deliberately avoided conferring a right on the person with care
to enforce a child maintenance assessment against the absent parent.