Blackwood and Blackwood

In *Blackwood and Blackwood*, heard before Judge Young, the applicant mother sought adult child maintenance from the respondent father for their child, born in 1998. The dispute concerned the quantum and duration of the maintenance payments.

The court was required to determine whether adult child maintenance was payable, the appropriate weekly sum, and the age until which such payments should continue. Additionally, the court had to consider the father's liability for maintenance arrears.

Judge Young ordered the respondent father to pay the applicant mother $90.00 per week for adult child maintenance, contingent on the child not being in full-time or part-time employment. These payments were to continue until the child reached the age of twenty-five years. The court also ordered the father to pay $2,340.00 in maintenance arrears.