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Child Maintenance
Hi All I have been paying Child maintenance for over 15 years and my son is now 20. On my divorce papers it states to pay maintenance during education. My ex-wife is ruining my sons life and sending him to college purely for the maintenance payments as he has been on multiple courses not really gaining anything…
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Child benefit whilst on mat leave
Hi all, I hope someone can help advise on eligibility for child benefit. I'm very fortunate that I earn over £80k incl bonus. I'm currently on maternity leave and I believe my income for the year 2024 will be less than £50k making me eligible for child benefit. As it stands I believe the cut off is 80k tapered between…
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Please help me understand how free 15 year childcare hours are calculated.
Hi All Could someone help me understand how free 15 year childcare hours are calculated. My daughter who will be turning 2 in one month goes to nursery full time 5 days a week. The nursery is open 7am to 7pm M-F and she spends 9am-5pm M-F and we have been paying full fee for her until we became eligible for 15 free hours a…
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Advice for family member
Could someone advise? Family member applied through child maintenance as arrangements that were agreed informally stopped working. Child maintenance provided an amount higher than what was been paid informally. Communication has indicated the parent won’t pay on the day specified. Are the steps next to allow them so many…
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Child Maintenance with Equal Shared care - reimbursement of payments
Can my partner be reimbursed for Child Maintenance he should never have paid? My partner has been paying Child Maintenance through the CMS but he has a court document stating that both parents have equal shared care. From the Government website: Child maintenance covers how your child’s living costs will be paid when one…
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CMS and Non-adherence to Court Order
Hi All I've received a CMS application from my ex. I have had a court order in place for a number of years for 50/50 shared care and she is now 15. My ex has consistently treid to have her labelled with something and is trying for autism, again, as she is not making her go to school. I tried helping late last year and the…
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Tax free childcare & 15 hours free whilst on SSP.
Seeking advice on claiming tax free childcare/free hours whilst on sick leave. Spoken to different people at HMRC and given different answers! Earlier in the year (Jan-Feb24) I was eligible for tax free childcare due to working 16 hours per week at above minimum wage. However I fell pregnant with (my second child, 1st…
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Stopping my child maintenance payments
My youngest son is 18 soon, 20,09,24. He as been working on an apprenticeship but as been dismissed. His mum says I have to start payments again. Is this true?
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Child Maintenance - other party hiding real income help
Hi, My child Maintenance Calculation for the 2 children I have is tiny. My ex has to pay less than £200 a month. They live with me 75% of the time. He leads a lavish lifestyle in a big detached house (rental) a fancy car, holidays, etc. The calculation is based purely on "unearned income" of less than £500 a week. He…
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Financial Order - D81
I am just skimming through the D81 form and need some advice about declaring savings and debt. We have filed for divorce (not yet final) ... we have both agreed to split everything 50/50, I am guessing the final decision will be made by the courts whether or not that is fair when they look at the D81 form and both our…
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Child support where child now lives in Australia
Hi, my son's mother took my son to live in Australia when he was 11 in 2005. We agreed at this point that I would stop paying child maintenance. My son is now 30. I received a letter from the Australian government about 7 years ago saying that I owed the government 30,000 dollars. My son's mother knew nothing about this,…
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Over 16 maintenance still in education on -line due to “ADHD” (allegedly)
My son has turned 16 and my ex says I must continue paying maintenance as he is doing English and maths on line as he has “ADHD”. Tbh seems like his normal teen behaviour has been made to seem worse so my ex can continue claiming benefits for him. Whilst sometimes a handful I have never believed he has ADHD and have plenty…
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"Tertiary Education" in a Financial Final Order causing confusion
Hello there, My ex husband and I have a Final Financial Order which was agreed by the court in 2013. Part of the Order states that my ex husband must make payments to me "for the benefit of the child of the family (child's name here) DOB (here) until he shall attain the age of 18 years, or cease full time tertiary…
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child maintenance payments - child turning 18
hi i pay child maintenance to my ex for my 17 year old son under a mutual arrangements (no authorities involved). He is in full time education (college A levels) and turns 18 soon. My question is when he turns 18 can I pay maintenance to him directly rather than to his mum? Does anything change if/when he goes to…
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Child Maintenance Payments
Is child maintenance payments based only on where they sleep? Me and the ex wife are currently sharing the family home until she buys me out. We do one week on and one week off sleeping here with them. I go halves on everything that involves the children and I pay for everything for them on my weeks, food etc. I still pay…
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Newly self employed - CMS wont recognise any earnings
Hi, I am hoping someone can help. My ex was unemployed claiming benefits for a couple of years after leaving a full time job. I have the kids full time, and work full time myself. He has them on the agreed dates with no issues. In March he started working as a taxi driver and is self employed via a taxi company. He told me…
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CMS payment - Rental Income,
I recently had my name added to my parents property, there is rental income and last year I declared all the income under my name and not my parents, I recently got a letter or notice of variation from CMS where my ex wife has asked them for further info on income and assets I wanted to know if I will be liable to pay…
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Help needed finding good lawyer to contest CSA settlement
Hi everyone, I have a friend who has been contacted by the CSA basically they are looking for more money. The CSA have, IMO cocked up the amounts charged and have not taken into account additional payments made to his former wife so i would like any advice on a good, preferably London based, laywers who can handle this for…
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childcare vouchers
if you've ended up with an excess of childcare voucher - can you get this refunded?
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Annual review confusion- am I being stupid?
Background is. Ex hb has historically earned between £500-550 per week in income and has paid child support based on this amount via a DEO. As far as I know the annual review is calculated at the recorded weekly earning for the previous financial year. At my annual review for 2024 his payments were recalculated based his…
