Divorce/Child maintenance help

Jayne2250

Hi everyone

Myself & ex husband have a court order in place that means I receive child maintenance for our 2 girls. When we divorced I agreed to the court order as it would mean payments for the children up until they are 18 or leave full time education. I am self employed and with the help of family still manage to work a couple of nights a week as I stopped working full time to bring the 2 girls up whilst I supported my ex husband with his career. One of the reasons I agreed to him keeping his huge pension (most of which was built up whilst I brought the children up) was that I would get these regular payments. I recently came across the paperwork that states my ex h should produce his last p60 and last 3 pay slips yearly to calculate the payments (I had previously just taken what he told me was right amount) I was met with hostility. After producing these documents it was clear I could and perhaps should be entitled to more child maintenance. Since querying this with him he has gone all out for a 50/50 arrangement with our children and intends to pay nothing. Can anyone advise me on this matter and where i stand. Thanks in advance for any help

DUTR

Jayne2250 wrote: »

Hi everyone

Myself & ex husband have a court order in place that means I receive child maintenance for our 2 girls. When we divorced I agreed to the court order as it would mean payments for the children up until they are 18 or leave full time education. I am self employed and with the help of family still manage to work a couple of nights a week as I stopped working full time to bring the 2 girls up whilst I supported my ex husband with his career. One of the reasons I agreed to him keeping his huge pension (most of which was built up whilst I brought the children up) was that I would get these regular payments. I recently came across the paperwork that states my ex h should produce his last p60 and last 3 pay slips yearly to calculate the payments (I had previously just taken what he told me was right amount) I was met with hostility. After producing these documents it was clear I could and perhaps should be entitled to more child maintenance. Since querying this with him he has gone all out for a 50/50 arrangement with our children and intends to pay nothing. Can anyone advise me on this matter and where i stand. Thanks in advance for any help

I understand a CMS/CSA case overrides court arrangements that have been running longer than 12 months.
But prolly best post in the csa board.

FBaby

How old are your children? Would they want to go and live with their dad? I too have heard that CMS overrides court arrangements.