Child maintenance how much ?

xx_Jo_xx

jinky67 wrote: »

bloody hell you lot are lucky

DS's dad gives me £118 a month, and I fund most of his clothes, school dinners, holidays etc from that
DD's dad gives me £20 a week

You took the words out of my mouth! I thought I was just being bitter cos I get SFA! lol xx

moneymakestheworldgoround

I get £150 a month for 2 kids.No other contribution to food, outings, clothing, special events.

In your case, there isnt a lot of information. Teenager could mean school age or nearly leaving age. 'Low income' is all relative to each household.

You havent given any other info about other kids, or how often you see the teenager or have them stay over....

There is a calculator on the government website. Put in the income and number of nights you have the child for, and it will give you an estimate of child maintenance due.

Find out yourself, and you wont have to listen to our case histories.

Snaggles

stapeley wrote: »

Sorry but do not really want a case histroy from everyone . Stressed out enough as it is .What is reasonable when on a low wage ?

That's extremely rude.

If you didn't want any discussion of the subject, had you just Googled 'Child maintenance calculator', the first hit would have taken you to the CSA's own online calculator. Might have been a better solution than posting on a forum, if you didn't want people to actually talk about their own experiences.

I'm sorry you are stressed out, but so might the people who are trying to help be.

Ames

I think what Stapeley's trying to ask is, is his partner's income taken into account when calculating the payments. Sorry if I'm wrong Stapeley! I don't read anything in his post that says he's trying to get out of paying, just trying to work out what it'll be for his budget.

TIME2GROWUP_2

Hi stapeley, I'm coming from the same direction as you I think, my Oh pays £300 a month and my stepson stays with us 2 nights a week and comes on holiday with us.. and i'm very lucky as I have a lovely stepson, even if he drives me bonkers now he's a teenager...!!!

MissShoes

we pay 150 a month for a 2 1/2 year old (my OH's daughter) which we expect to rise as we start to be counted as a couple rather than it being based on his earnings. We are going to start a savings account for her to go to university. We also will allow 100 a month for trips with her etc in our new budget.

Penelope_Penguin

Ames wrote: »

I think what Stapeley's trying to ask is, is his partner's income taken into account when calculating the payments.

Well I'm completely When I read this originally, I thought it was the partner's child's maintenance we were discussing Re-reading it, the child could be of the OP or their partner

beer_tins

It's not clear from the origiginal post if:

1) the OP needs to pay maintenence and wants to know if their partners' income gets taken into account when deciding how much.

2) The OP needs to recieve maintenence and wants to know if their partners' income gets taken into account when deciding how much.

Can you clarify which it is, OP? The two are very different questions!

beanielou

Im amazed at how much some peeps get & how little others get.
Im in the middle.
All Im saying teenagers are sooooooo expensive its scary

Valli

I get £56 per week for two teenagers (13 and 15) both of whom intend to stay in education (sixth form/uni/college).
ex OH has given me money for extras when asked, which is nice. He has a partner with whom he lives BTW
I pay £25 school dinner money for them each week so not a lot left out of that...