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Can any legal steps be taken to help a minor whose mother 'agreed' to extremely low child maintenance at the family court to extract herself from an unhappy marriage, to his father, but is now living close to poverty as a result?

Yes ! An independent plea can be filed, on behalf of the child, for an increase in child maintenance. A minor child is not bound by parental agreements concerning him,even if the mother undertook not to file for an increase in child maintenance, in a court authorised agreement. The independent child's plea for an increase in maintenance can be filed by the mother, as the natural guardian, representing the child, or by a 'close friend'.