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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…
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Child Maintenance Payments
I’m bamboozled and keep finding conflicting information so hoping someone can confirm my question(s). I have an 18 year old son that is about to leave College and begin studying at University in September. He will no longer be living at home with Mum. I make my payment on the 27th of each month. Do I need to continue…
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Tax Free Childcare + 15 hours free
Hello I currently earning over £100k a year. I am putting a % away into a pension via my employer - a company pension plan by aviva (a% my contributions plus 3% my employers contributions.) It is a salary sacrifice arrangement ie not the net relief at source arrangement. I am then putting some money away per month into a…
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How long for tax free child account approval
Hi, I’ve applied for tax free child care and 15h free on gov website. I never had a child’s tax account before. It’s been 2 weeks and it still hasn’t been approved. Does anyone know how long it takes? also, how do they check the annual salary? Is it based on last year? I’ve never applied because I earned over 100k and…
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25% bonkers ruling
Anyone else get done over every year by this? It's not the ruling itself, it's that they only apply it when it suits them. So annual review should be the latest figure they have from HMRC. Every year they give me the wrong calculation as they don't include the P11D figure. Every year I tell them that they should and every…
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Can I receive Child Maintenance for university student
My daughter is about to start her final year of A-levels and is planning on going to a local university so she can live at home (she needs extra support she is autistic). She may need to do a foundation year at university before starting her degree. As I understand it child maintenance is not paid for students studying for…
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Voluntary Child Maintenance for a School Leaver
Not sure this is the right place to ask this question but if not and someone could point me in the right direction it would help. My son has been separated from his ex partner for 15 years and has been paying an agreed voluntary maintenance for that length of time. My grandson was 16 in November 2023, hasn't been to school…
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Redundancy and Childcare Discount
Hi All, I am being made redundant. My partner and I have two children at childcare in Northern Ireland, we currently receive the 20% discount. When I lose my job do I also lose the discount? Thanks in advance.
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child maintenance - paying lump sum in advance
Hello all, I'm in the middle of agreeing child maintenance payments with my ex. She is asking if I will pay a lump sum upfront, this would cover all payments for the next 5 years and then our child will be adult. I'm happy to pay what is required every month, but is it a good idea to just pay it all in one go like that?…
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Evidence for Child Maintenance tribunal
I am in dispute over the number of days my son stays with his dad. He doesn't stay over at all but his dad claims he stays 2 nights a week. A court order was made when our son was 14, an age where really he can decide where he wants to stay. He does see his dad but feels uncomfortable staying over. I have provided CMS with…
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Changing Child Maintenance Payments
Me and the ex wife came to an agreement we would use the child maintenance figure from the government website, I pay her based on me having the children 2 nights a week. Is it reasonable for me to change the amount on a month to month basis. As I am having them half the summer holidays (50/50 care), so surely I should pay…
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Abusive ex-husband and bullying court order
After 11 years of emotional, verbal and financial abuse I fled the family home in Surrey with 2 young children. My husband was arrested and released on 3 months bail. I am now living with parents in Oxfordshire and have transferred my eldest child into a local primary school. I have been issued a without notice child…
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When exactly does my quarterly entitlement to Tax Free Childcare refresh?
Simple question
but I can’t find the answer anywhere. Is there a set date on which my quarterly
entitlement to Tax Free Childcare refreshes? If so, how can I find out when it
is? Obviously I realise that it’s roughly once every three months, but it’d be
helpful if I could diarise the precise date.
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Child Maintenance
My daughter is 18 and has just finished her A levels and has left college. When would I stop my child maintenance payments? I’ve read that’s university doesn’t count as full time education and that I can stop payments on 31st August?
