maintenance

A term used in England and Wales for money payments paid by one marriage partner to help support the other and/or their children, whether or not they are legitimate, during or following legal separation or divorce. This is more correctly known now as financial provision or financial relief. The payments are often referred to as alimony, but terminology varies (eg it is called aliment or periodical allowance in Scotland).

If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Maintenance see Maintenance, Repair and Operations; Maintenance is a legal term of art that is used to describe child support, alimony (also called spousal support), and champerty. It is less commonly used to describe unlawful conduct where a third-party provides help to a litigant who does not have a bona-fide interest in a lawsuit. Maintenance is an industry term that is used to describe software maintenance in the computer software industry Maintenance is an industry term that is used to describe preventive maintenance in manufacturing, e.g. "schedule maintenance on the grinding machine" Maintenance of an organism is the collection of processes to stay alive, excluding production processes.