separate maintenance
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Students in Northern Ireland from less well-off backgrounds can also get a separate maintenance grant of up to £3,475, depending on their household income.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
A separate maintenance loan is intended to cover accommodation, food, books and equipment.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024
Most inspection reports will separate maintenance work from more pressing matters.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
Last week Wives Mae Murray and Mary McCormic, convinced that their absent husbands are highly solvent, were in court suing them respectively for divorce and separate maintenance.
From Time Magazine Archive
No limited divorce; but wife has an action for separate maintenance in case of desertion or neglect to provide on part of husband.
From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Hecker, Eugene Arthur
