"antecedent order" means - (a) a maintenance order, (b) a variation order, (c) an interim order, (d) an order under section 48 insofar as it is deemed under that section to be a maintenance order, or (e) an order for maintenance pending suit under section 116 or a periodical payments order or secured periodical payments order under Part 12;
"attachment of earnings order" means an order under section 53;
"desertion" includes conduct on the part of one civil partner that results in the other civil partner, with just cause, leaving and living separately and apart from the first civil partner;
"earnings" means any sums payable to a person -(a) by way of wages or salary (including any fees, bonus, commission, overtime pay or other emoluments payable in addition to wages or salary or payable under a contract of service), and(b) by way of pension or other like benefit in respect of employment (including an annuity in respect of past services, whether or not r
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