This book grew out of a major EU funded project on the Hague Maintenance Convention of 2007 and on the EU Maintenance Regulation of 2009. It is the first study to look carefully at both of the new cross-border maintenance regimes globally and in Europe.

PART ONE: COMPARATIVE CONTEXT1. Cultural Dimensions of Maintenance Law from a Private International Law PerspectiveErik JaymePART TWO: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE2. Introduction to Part Two (International) and Part Three (International and EU)Paul Beaumont and Lara Walker3. The Modern History, Evolution and Projected Future of Child Support Enforcement in the United States and Globally: 1975 to 2025Robert Keith4. Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Maintenance Orders in Commonwealth African CountriesRichard Frimpong Oppong5. Recovery of Child Maintenance in South America and in Mercosur’s CountriesNadia de Araujo6. Enforcing Foreign Maintenance Decisions in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance from an Asian PerspectiveJames Ding7. The Potential of the 2007 Child Support Convention: Addressing Global Poverty and Supporting Economic RightsMaja Groff8. Migration, Remittances and Child SupportAnn Laquer Estin9. International Maintenance Cases: Preliminary Research Hannah Roots10. Setting Appropriate Child Support Orders and Addressing Barriers: Research and Policy Implications to Improve Payments and Compliance Mark Takayesu and Steven Eldred11. Administrative Establishment and Enforcement of Child Support in Norway Jorid Saue, Floor de Jongh Bekkali, Elisabeth Sættem and Britt Rustad12. Child Support in Kazakhstan: Case for Accession to the 2007 Hague Maintenance Convention Milana Karayanidi13. Maintenance Obligations in the Brazilian Legal System Inez Lopes14. Argentina’s Regulation of Maintenance Obligations: Implementation of the 2007 Hague ConventionNieve Rubaja15. Recovery of Child Support in Nigeria Olanike Adelakun-Odewale16. The Interface between Maintenance and Cross-border Surrogacy Katarina TrimmingsPART THREE: INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN UNION MATTERS17. Developing an Electronic Case Management and Communication System for the 2007 Hague Child Support Convention and 2009 EU Maintenance Regulation: The iSupport ProjectPhilippe Lortie18. Child Maintenance and Authentic Instruments—A German PerspectiveAna-Sabine Boehm, Natalie Faetan and Isabelle Jäger-Maillet19. Innovations of the 2007 Hague Maintenance ProtocolMirela ŽupanPART FOUR: EUROPEAN UNION PERSPECTIVE20. Setting the Scene—The EU Maintenance RegulationBurkhard Hess and Stefanie Spancken21. Empirical Study on the Early Operation of the EU Maintenance RegulationLara Walker and Paul Beaumont22. The Effective Operation of the EU Maintenance Regulation in the Member StatesBurkhard Hess and Stefanie Spancken23. Love and Money: Problems of Characterisation in Matrimonial Property and Maintenance Matters in the European UnionCsongor István Nagy24. Drawing a Demarcating Line between Spousal Maintenance Obligations and Matrimonial Property in the Context of the New Instruments of European Union Private International LawMaarja Torga25. Characterisation within Private International Law: Maintenance or Succession? Jayne Holliday26. Choice of Court in Matters Relating to Maintenance ObligationsMatthias Abendroth27. The Enforcement of Maintenance Decisions in the EU: Requiem for Public Policy? Family Relationships and the (Partial) Abolition of ExequaturIlaria Viarengo28. Jurisdiction, Recognition and Enforcement in Cases of Reimbursement Claims by Public BodiesDieter Martiny

Innovative books on the perennial, as well as emerging, problems thrown up by international litigation.This series provides an outlet for modern scholarly works on private international law. As such it aims to include monographs, edited collections and shorter specialised works which reflect the wide intellectual and practical scope of private international law, providing academics and practitioners with a new source of original and innovative books on the perennial, as well as emerging, problems thrown up by international litigation.