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Series
Home Office: Maintenance and Affiliation Orders Files (MAF Symbol Series)
Catalogue reference: HO 398
What's it about?
HO 398
The Home Office General Department handled various issues relating to family life, including marriage, paternity and the maintenance of children. This series contains files relating to provision of maintenance under the system which preceded the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 398
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Maintenance and Affiliation Orders Files (MAF Symbol Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1954-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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The Home Office General Department handled various issues relating to family life, including marriage, paternity and the maintenance of children. This series contains files relating to provision of maintenance under the system which preceded the establishment of the Child Support Agency under the Department of Health and Social Security. The files relate to the enactment and amendment of legislation, review of procedures, and negotiation of reciprocal agreements with other countries.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Files are in order of former reference.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- MAF
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 120 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2004 Home Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Marriage and divorce
- Children
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9262/
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