Queensland Consolidated Acts

MAINTENANCE ACT 1965 - SECT 14

14 Court may order unmarried father to maintain child

Where the court, upon complaint made on behalf of a child whose parents were not married to each other at the time of its conception and have not since married each other, is satisfied that the defendant is the father of the child and—

(a) that the child is left by the defendant without adequate means of support provided by him and was so left on the date alleged in the complaint; or

(b) that the defendant is about to remove out of Queensland or into a distant part of Queensland and leave the child without adequate means of support provided by the defendant;