Child maintenance how much ?

stapeley

Did not mean to be rude ! There are two sides to a break up ! did not want to get into a " he left me for another woman and now the b

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rd won,t pay argument .

UNCLE_BUCK

HI stapeley

i pay 20% of my take home pay for 2 children under 18, for one child the guidline is 15% it can be reduced further if you have your child stay with you for more than 1 night a week.
hope this helps and hope your ex starts to take responsibility soon

UNCLE_BUCK

forgot to add, as far as i know new partners income does not come into it, but if that new partner and your ex have new baby that will efect what they pay.

Lurker1972

My OH has 3 kids, he pays his ex 25% of his take home pay - think that figure was a CSA guideline amount, not that the CSA were involved

He pays towards school uniforms, trips, clotohes, shoes & their phone bills

geranium72

There is no right answer of what is reasonable as the only measure of what it should be is the CSA calculation

This is a set calculation of net income (gross less tax, NI and pension contributions) of the payer - 15% for 1 child, 20% for 2 and 25% for 3 or more. Income of new partners on either side is irrelevant for the purposes of the calculation, but if the payer lives in a household with children then that can reduce the calculation of what is paid. Also the amount of staying contact (overnight) that the paying parent has, is relevant and reduces the calculation

There are some differences to the calculation if someone paying is on a very high or very low income - but this gets complicated and doesn't really affect the vast majority

even if you are not going throught the CSA this is the method that most family solicitors would use to calculate what is "reasonable"

can you give us some more details of whether you are paying, receiving and how many children there are on both households as this would help

Penelope_Penguin

stapeley wrote: »

Did not mean to be rude ! There are two sides to a break up ! did not want to get into a " he left me for another woman and now the b

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rd won,t pay argument .

TBF, though, lots of people have tried to assist you and you've not clarified anyone's questions

stapeley

Sorry did not want to give out too much imformation , ex may be reading forum !! I pay her roughly 40% of my monthly income .

beer_tins

Is that 40% of your gross income (before tax, NI etc.)? If so that is very high. If not, roughly what % of your gross income do you pay?

BTW I don't think your partner's income shouldn't affect what you should be paying, at least not according to the CSA guidelines.