Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsWhere the court, upon complaint made on behalf of a child of the family, is satisfied--
(a) that the child is left by the father without adequate means of support provided by him and was so left on the date alleged in the complaint; or
(b) that the father 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 him;
the court may order the father to pay for or towards the maintenance of the child such amount as it thinks reasonable.