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Key definition

Maintenance definition

What does Maintenance mean? Maintenance describes financial support paid by one person to a current or former spouse or civil partner, or for the benefit of a child, during separation, divorce/dissolution and afterwards. It is a descriptive term used across family law, with statutory regimes and case law guiding its assessment and enforcement. England & Wales and Northern Ireland: spousal/civil partner maintenance is commonly termed periodical payments, including interim “maintenance pending suit”; child maintenance/child support is primarily via the Child Maintenance Service (with court jurisdiction in limited cases, including Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 and for a “child of the family”). Scotland: support during a...

Aircraft operating leases: maintenance obligations, reserves, manuals and technical records, AD compliance, service bulletins and OEM power-by-the-hour programmes

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Practice notes

When a lessor places an aircraft on lease, it is concerned to make sure the aircraft is run in a way that does not unduly undermine the market value of the aircraft, and therefore its value as quasi-security, over the term of the lease. As a bare minimum, the lessee will be asked to give an undertaking to the lessor that it will operate the aircraft as follows:

in full accordance with all applicable laws (which includes the laws of the state in which the aircraft is registered as well as those of any jurisdictions in which the aircraft is physically located)
in accordance with all permits or licences which are required by the lessee to operate the aircraft in question
in a way which will not invalidate any warranties granted by a manufacturer in respect of the aircraft
in accordance with the specifications and tolerances, and with any manuals for the aircraft, provided by a manufacturer
in a way which will not invalidate the insurances or leave the aircraft uninsured, and
lawfully, and only for lawful purposes

Mandatory checks and inspections

Aircraft are high-value assets to maintain and are required to have mandatory checks and inspections completed at regular intervals...

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