What is financial responsibilities to step-children

Marisco

Mrs_P_Pincher wrote: »

"Child of the family" - absolutely right. In your divorce petition you will list not only the children you have together, but any either of you have brought into the marriage.

What you won't get is two lots of maintenance.

Mrs P P

So who pays then, the "real" father or the step? I find this really incredible!!!! So if a bloke marries a lass with 4 kids, and a few years down the road, they split up, does that mean the poor sod has to pay maintenance for 4 kids that aren't his????

Oldernotwiser

Marisco wrote: »

So who pays then, the "real" father or the step? I find this really incredible!!!! So if a bloke marries a lass with 4 kids, and a few years down the road, they split up, does that mean the poor sod has to pay maintenance for 4 kids that aren't his????

Rather depends on your definition of "real" father, doesn't it?

What about the situation where the birth father was non existent in the child's life and the step father brought the child up as his for 14 years - who's the "real" father there?

Marisco

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Rather depends on your definition of "real" father, doesn't it?

What about the situation where the birth father was non existent in the child's life and the step father brought the child up as his for 14 years - who's the "real" father there?

I should have said biological father then. Still the e.g I stated still stands though, would a bloke who marries a lass with 4 kids be expected to pay CM if they split? If it's right, then why don't the CSA adopt that policy? They make a flamin' shambles of everything else!!!

clearingout

this is interesting. My own understanding was that it's only the biological father who has the financial responsibility unless there has been an adoption. However, I think children are treated as 'children of the family' whichever side they come from in terms of managing the capital/financial side of a divorce. So in effect, if the mother comes into a marriage with a couple of children, and they still need housing after the breakdown of that marriage, a judge would take into account their housing needs in determining who gets what. So although the step father wouldn't be paying directly, he might still lose out compared with a man who married a woman who had no children from a previous relationship.

dizziblonde

My step-father - who married my mum when I was about 3 I believe and got caught with his pants down and sausage somewhere it shouldn't have been just before I was 10 and who had looked into formally adopting me but then never went through with it had a maintenance order on both me and my younger brother (who was biologically his) made when they divorced.

Not sure of how it was phrased legally but it was defintely done via the court, definitely for both of us (and the git definitely tried to default on it umpteen times so the court had to enforce it all).

Shelldean

I wonder if it's like the will situation where if someone has been dependant on the person who has passed away, then they can lay claim to part of the estate??

I've been with my OH since my DD was 3mths, 1993, and married to him since 2002, when she was almost 9. Since 1993 he's totally supported her. So maybe if we split up then she could claim she's been finanically dependant on him since 1993 (tho it would be a whole new ball game as she's now 19!!! and at Uni where he is STILL supporting her) She's defo seen as a child of the family, along with her 3 brothers. So much so that people who've known us for yrs are gobsmacked when I mention her bio dad ( who she sees once in blue moon) They've just assumed she was OH's. We dont hide the fact she's not just dont braodcast it either.

Ravenlady_2

full-time-mum wrote: »

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