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Family Law (Divorce) Act, 1996 (No. 33)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart I Preliminary and General (ss. 1-4)1. Short title and commencement.2. Interpretation.3. Repeal.4. Expenses.Part II The Obtaining of a Decree of Divorce (ss. 5-10)5. Grant of decree of divorce and custody etc., of children.6. Safeguards to ensure applicant's awareness of alternatives to divorce proceedings and to assist attempts at reconciliation.6A. Safeguards to ensure awareness of alternatives to divorce proceedings where application made jointly by both spouses and to assist attempts at reconciliation.7. Safeguards to ensure respondent's awareness of alternatives to divorce proceedings and to assist attempts at reconciliation.8. Adjournment of proceedings to assist reconciliation or agreements on the terms of the divorce.9. Non-admissibility as evidence of certain communications relating to reconciliation, separation or divorce.10. Effect of decree of divorce.Part III Preliminary and Ancillary Orders in or after Proceedings for Divorce (ss. 10A-30)10A. Joint application for ancillary orders.11. Preliminary orders in proceedings for divorce.12. Maintenance pending suit orders.13. Periodical payments and lump sum orders.14. Property adjustment orders.15. Miscellaneous ancillary orders.16. Financial compensation orders.17. Pension adjustment orders.18. Orders for provision for spouse out of estate of other spouse.19. Orders for sale of property.20. Provisions relating to certain orders under sections 12 to 18 and 22.21. Retrospective periodical payments orders.22. Variation, etc., of certain orders under this Part.23. Restriction in relation to orders for benefit of dependent members of family.24. Method of making payments under certain orders.25. Stay on certain orders the subject of appeal.26. Orders under Acts of 1976, 1989 and 1995.27. Amendment of section 3 of Act of 1976.28. Transmission of periodical payments through District Court clerk.29. Application of maintenance pending suit and periodical payment orders to certain members of Defence Forces.30. Amendment of Enforcement of Court Orders Act, 1940.Part IV Income Tax, Capital Acquisitions Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Probate Tax and Stamp Duty (ss. 31-36)31. Payments to be made without deduction of income tax.32. Income tax treatment of divorced persons.33. Exemption of certain transfers from stamp duty.34. Exemption of certain transfers from capital acquisitions tax.35. Capital gains tax treatment of certain disposals by divorced persons.36. Abatement and postponement of probate tax on property the subject of an order under section 18.Part V Miscellaneous (ss. 37-53)37. Powers of court in relation to transactions intended to prevent or reduce relief.38. Jurisdiction of courts and venue.39. Exercise of jurisdiction by court in relation to divorce.40. Notice of proceedings under Act.41. Custody of dependent members of family after decree of divorce.42. Social reports in family law proceedings.43. Cost of mediation and counselling services.44. Determination of questions between persons formerly engaged to each other in relation to property.45. Amendment of Act of 1989.46. Amendment of Act of 1965.47. Amendment of Pensions Act, 1990.48. Amendment of Criminal Damage Act, 1991.49. Amendment of Criminal Evidence Act, 1992.50. Amendment of Powers of Attorney Act, 1996.51. Amendment of Act of 1996.52. Amendment of Act of 1995.53. Amendment of Maintenance Act, 1994.
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AI Summary of 14. Property adjustment orders.

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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2011 - onwards
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14. Property adjustment orders.

(1) On granting a decree of divorce or at any time thereafter, the court, on application to it in that behalf by either of the spouses concerned or by a person on behalf of a dependent member of the family, may, during the lifetime of the other spouse or, as the case may be, the spouse concerned, make a property adjustment order, that is to say, an order providing for one or more of the following matters:

(a) the transfer by either of the spouses to the other spouse, to any dependent member of the family or to any other specified person for the benefit of such a member of specified property, being property to which the first-mentioned spouse is entitled either in possession or reversion,

(b) the settlement to the satisfaction of the court of specified property, being property to which either of the spouses is so entitled as aforesaid, for the benefit of the other spouse and of any dependent member of the family or of any or all of those persons,

(c) the variation for the benefit of either of the spouses and of any dependent member of the family or of any or all of those persons of any ante-nuptial or post-nuptial settlement (including such a settlement made by will or codicil) made on the spouses,

(d) the extinguishment or reduction of the interest of either of the spouses under any such settlement.

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