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s 77

Urgent spousal maintenance cases

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Volume 1s 1-90
Part VIIIProperty, spousal maintenance and maintenance agreements

77 Urgent spousal maintenance cases

Where, in proceedings with respect to the maintenance of a party to a marriage, it appears to the court that the party is in immediate need of financial assistance, but it is not practicable in the circumstances to determine immediately what order, if any, should be made, the court may order the payment, pending the disposal of the proceedings, of such periodic sum or other sums as the court considers reasonable.

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