Maintenance final payment

Billyd0

Thank you guys, she earns over 25k a year. But I will stop paying in August 2025 and will put it aside if he wants money. 
You guys are great,

Thinking about it......child maintenance........ Means child.........18 at university is classed as and adult, so he's not a child anymore, he's a young adult man 👍👍, 
But I'm ery very proud of him even if he doesn't want to know me( manipulation is horrible, ). Mums shldnt get away with it.its disgusting.

B

sheramber

Maintenance is often linked to getting child benefit.

If he is not in  approved education then child benefit will cease

https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit/what-youll-get

How it works

You get Child Benefit if you’re responsible for bringing up a child who is:

• under 16
• under 20 if they stay in approved education or training

Approved education

Education must be full-time (more than an average of 12 hours a week of supervised study or course-related work experience). This can include:

• A levels or similar, for example International Baccalaureate
• T levels
• Scottish Highers
• NVQs and most vocational qualifications up to level 3
• home education - if it started either before your child turned 16 or after 16 if they have a statement of special educational needs
• study programmes in England
• a pre-apprenticeship

Billyd0

Thanks sheramber, 

He's doing a 3 year teaching degree at university while living at home, so do I still have to pay child maintenance, he's 18 yes old

Billyd0

Thanks enpointe so is university full time education? Or not? He's 18 still living at home while doing a 3 year teaching degree? 

Spendless

It is usually the end of full time Secondary education (so A levels or equivalent). Thats when child benefit would stop (end of August) and you'd stop paying maintenance. Even if not eligible for CB (eg if earning too much) I believe these dates still apply.
Mum might have come across the wording 'full time education' so believes it will apply to Uni too. That is not usually the case but I think Im aware of some historic cases (kids now adults) where it was part of the divorce settlement that support continued past sixth form age if remaining in full time (eg Uni) education, so might be worth digging any paperwork you have out from your divorce. 

Billyd0

Thanks spendless,  
It was a verbal agreement between us when he was young. No court involved or stated in the divorce, it's not the fact of not paying him( I will save the usual amount so if he asks me I will give it to him), 
It's more of a point......he's 18 at university and as far as I'm aware, it stops in august(last child maintenance payment)  simply because he's at university. 

Am I right, his mum is adamant it's full time education and I have to pay till he's 20. 

I'm told she can go to court if she wants to, but she won't get anywhere. 

A simple yes or no? 
Stop payments in August as child benefits stop. 

B

Peter999_2

Simply put, stop the payments as the child isn't in full-time education.   For the purposes of maintenance, University is not full-time education.

sheramber

Show his mum this

https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit-16-19

Education and training that is not approved

You cannot get Child Benefit if your child is:

• studying for a university degree or BTEC Higher National Certificate (an ‘advanced course’)

Spendless

Billyd0 said:

Thanks spendless,  
It was a verbal agreement between us when he was young. No court involved or stated in the divorce, it's not the fact of not paying him( I will save the usual amount so if he asks me I will give it to him), 
It's more of a point......he's 18 at university and as far as I'm aware, it stops in august(last child maintenance payment)  simply because he's at university. 

Am I right, his mum is adamant it's full time education and I have to pay till he's 20. 

I'm told she can go to court if she wants to, but she won't get anywhere. 

A simple yes or no? 
Stop payments in August as child benefits stop. 

B

No, you dont. Child Benefit can be paid until the child is 20 if in full time education but that does NOT include Uni education. 
 Stop paying at the end of August in line with when CB stops and let Mum take to court if she wishes. She wont get anywhere. 

Billyd0

Thanks spendless👍👍