New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT 1899 - SECT 90

90 Attachment

(1) The Court may enforce by attachment any order made by it for payment of costs or of any sum due in respect of alimony or the maintenance of children.

(2) No person adjudicated bankrupt in whose statement of affairs all sums due in respect of such costs alimony or maintenance are included shall remain imprisoned under such writ during a longer period than is hereinafter mentioned:

(a) for non-payment of costs six months

(b) for non-payment of alimony or maintenance twelve months.

(3) This section has effect notwithstanding section ninety-eight of the Supreme Court Act 1970 .