This study uses the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS data) from 2013 to study 1) the contribution of child maintenance to the income packages of lone mothers, 2) the proportion of lone mothers receiving child maintenance and the level of child maintenance for those receiving it, and 3) the extent to...

In this article, the searchlight falls on innovative maintenance enforcement methods and mechanisms envisaged for South Africa in a qualitative research study conducted in the maintenance court (the qualitative research study) and the recently published draft Maintenance Amendment Bill 2013 (the...