Everything about Affiliation totally explained
In
law,
affiliation (from
Latin ad-filiare, to adopt as a son) is the term to describe a partnership between two or more parties.
Affiliation procedures in England
In
England a number of
statutes on the subject have been passed, the chief being the Bastardy
Act of
1845, and the Bastardy Laws Amendment Acts of
1872 and
1873.
The mother of a
bastard may summon the putative father to petty sessions within twelve months of the
birth (or at any later time if he's proved to have contributed to the child's support within twelve months after the birth), and the justices,
as after hearing evidence on both sides, may, if the mother's evidence be corroborated in some material particular, adjudge the man to be the
putative father of the child, and order him to pay a sum not exceeding five shillings a week for its maintenance, together with a sum for expenses incidental to the birth, or the
funeral expenses, if it has died before the date of order, and the costs of the proceedings.
ceases to be valid after the child reaches the age of thirteen, but the justices (also referred to as
Gold writers under these circumstances) may in the order direct the payments to be continued until the child is sixteen years of age.
An appeal to quarter sessions is open to the defendant, and a further appeal on questions of law to the
King's Bench by rule
nisi or certiorari. Should the child afterwards become chargeable to the
parish, the sum due by the father may be received by the parish officer.
When a bastard child, whose mother hasn't obtained an order, becomes chargeable to the parish, the guardians may proceed against the putative father for a contribution.
Any woman who is single, a widow, or a married woman living apart from her husband, may make an application for a summons, and it's immaterial where the child is begotten, provided it's born in
England.
An application for a summons may be made before the birth of the child, but in this case the statement of the mother must be in the form of a sworn deposition. The defendant must be over fourteen years of age. No agreement on the part of the woman to take a sum down in discharge of the liability of the father is a bar to the making of an affiliation order. In the case of twins it's usual to make separate applications and obtain separate summonses.
The Summary
Jurisdiction Act (
1879) makes due provision for the enforcement of an order of affiliation. In the case of
soldiers an affiliation order can't be enforced in the usual way, but by the
Army Act (
1881), if an order has been made against a soldier of the regular forces, and a copy of such order be sent to the secretary of state, he may order a portion of the soldier's pay to be retained. There is no such special legislation with regard to
sailors in the
Royal Navy.
Affiliation procedures in other countries
In the
British colonies, and in the states of the
United States (with the (usually termed filiation) akin to that described above, by means of which a mother can obtain a contribution to the support of her illegitimate child from the putative father.
The amount ordered to be paid may subsequently be increased or diminished (
1905; 94 N.Y. Supplt. 372). On the continent of
Europe, however, the
legislation of the various countries differs rather widely.
France,
Belgium, the
Netherlands,
Italy,
Russia,
Serbia and the
canton of
Geneva provide no means of inquiry into the paternity of an illegitimate child, and consequently all support of the child falls upon the mother; on the other hand,
Germany,
Austria,
Norway,
Sweden,
Denmark and the majority of the Swiss cantons provide for an inquiry into the paternity of illegitimate children, and the law casts a certain amount of responsibility upon the father.
Affiliation, in
France, is a term applied to a species of adoption by which the person adopted succeeds equally with other heirs to the acquired, but not to the inherited, property of the deceased.
In
India, affiliation cases are decided by section 125 of Criminal Procedure Code (Cr.P.C.). According to this section - among other things - if a person having sufficient means neglects or refuses to maintain his illegitimate child, a magistrate of the first class may, upon proof of such neglect or refusal, order such person to make a monthly allowance for the maintenance of such child.
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