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Child maintenance question
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Mine just goes into the general household pot - paying the mortgage/ bills/ food/ clothes/ holidays/ pocket money. I don't get/ expect/ ask for anything extra from Ex for DS nor to i specifcally account for that being money spent on DS. Having said that I'm sure both OH and I spend greater than 15% of our incomes on DS but its hard to quantify - a bigger mortgage on a bigger house near his school benefits us all!People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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No PWC should ever have to quantify what they have spent on the child. It is far too intrusive. There are so many NRP's that believe though that the maintenance is spent on the PWC only and nothing extra is being spent on the child when that is not the case even though it is just one big pot.Mine just goes into the general household pot - paying the mortgage/ bills/ food/ clothes/ holidays/ pocket money. I don't get/ expect/ ask for anything extra from Ex for DS nor to i specifcally account for that being money spent on DS. Having said that I'm sure both OH and I spend greater than 15% of our incomes on DS but its hard to quantify - a bigger mortgage on a bigger house near his school benefits us all!:footie:
Regular savers earn 6% interest (HSBC, First Direct, M&S) Loans cost 2.9% per year (Nationwide) = FREE money. 0 -
No PWC should ever have to quantify what they have spent on the child. It is far too intrusive. There are so many NRP's that believe though that the maintenance is spent on the PWC only and nothing extra is being spent on the child when that is not the case even though it is just one big pot.
Have to say,when you see NRPs moaning that the ex has just had their hair done/bought a new outfit/had nails done,I always wonder why they instantly decide that it was their maintenance that paid for it!If women are birds and freedom is flight are trapped women Dodos?0 -
I've only recently separated, but we agreed my ex would give me 20% of his salary ( 2 children) I don't expect any more than this for anything, although we did both split our savings, and I opened an account with most of it, specifically for any bigger items for them ( some of it's just gone on a prom dress!)0
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