Consent order/clean break, are there any gotchas?

manysaver

badmemory wrote: »

If you are really lucky your ex might decide that for £30 a month she would rather not have the money & not have to think about you & whether it is going to turn up. Best thing that happened to me was my ex finding a way to stop paying child maintenance. Set me free. I do like the way so many men seem to think that the maintenance they pay is going to get p***** up the wall. Do you have even the remotest idea how much it costs to keep a child? £30 a month will at least keep them in breakfast cereal!

I don't think you have understood or read what I have said. This is not about the amount I actually pay, but simply that I don't want to create a legal obligation to do so - I'm quite happy to pay her much more than I am obliged to do, just I don't see the sense in creating a compulsion based on circumstances which might change in the future.

Of course I know how much it costs to keep a child, but that's not really the topic here.

Accountant_Kerry

Any child maintenance agreed in a consent order can be challenged after 12 months anyway.

mattpaint

manysaver wrote: »

Two or three times a year? what are you feeding them?

flip flops are £1.50 in Primark btw.



I don't 'expect' the taxpayer to pay my child's basic living costs, that's simply how the law works in the UK. It's an entitlement, not an expectation.

More than £7 per week's worth, like decent parents I would imagine.

You're a troll.

mattpaint

manysaver wrote: »

I don't think you have understood or read what I have said. This is not about the amount I actually pay, but simply that I don't want to create a legal obligation to do so - I'm quite happy to pay her much more than I am obliged to do, just I don't see the sense in creating a compulsion based on circumstances which might change in the future.

Of course I know how much it costs to keep a child, but that's not really the topic here.

So you want to hold power over your ex with money?

There's a word for people like you.

elsien

mattpaint wrote: »

So you want to hold power over your ex with money?

There's a word for people like you.

That isn't what the OP said at all. Being clear about what you are obliged to pay, then topping up if you can afford to is not the same as playing power games with someone.

onwards&upwards

manysaver wrote: »

Two or three times a year? what are you feeding them?

flip flops are £1.50 in Primark btw.

You’d put your children’s growing feet in £1.50 shoes from Primark? Really?