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Child Maintenance
Good evening peepz. I am a 37 year old male. My cohabitant of 15 months left me and took our child (9 months old at the time) with her back to Central London (her parents house) around May 2018. Me and my partner were privately mediating (for around 2.5 months until three weeks ago when she decided to cut off access to the…
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Some advice on child maintenance please?
My son & wife are separating ( amicably, up to now) They have 3 children He works full time , she works 24 hrs. They have agreed to have the children 50/50. He is giving her 55% of the house sale equity plus he is loaning her enough for a house deposit which she has agreed to repay. He has had conflicting advice about…
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Bathroom pull cord switch
Bathroom pull cord switch I hope there is someone out there that can help me I’ve been trying to fit a bathroom pull cord switch there was previouslyA motion sensor switch which are taken down The new pull switch has L1 L2, and earth. I have six wires coming from my ceiling Two red two black and one other black wire with a…
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Dads been sectioned 117
My dad was sectioned because of dementia. He is fully funded and we have no power of attorney. My mother is able to withdraw his money to buy him clothes bedding etc. He’s been sectioned for about 4 years and his savings are rising. What would happen to this savings account if he died. Would it be taken by the authorities…
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Child Maintenance Question
Hi, I have a child arrangement order and have done since 2017. Now the agreement is that my son lives with me on a full time basis and has 6 hours supervised contact every other week with his mother. in the arrangement there’s specifics about gifts etc however not about Maintanence. his mother has since married and doesn’t…
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Advice on kids inheritance
Hi all, My children's mother (ex-wife) unfortunately passed away last year. Long story short, I became administrator for the estate and as of this week the final piece, the house, was finally sold. There was no will so all monies go to them 50/50 and with it all collected in now, they have around 60k each. They are 14 and…
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Child Maintenance - 25% Rule
Hello... Is anyone else really struggling with this rule that if your income doesn't drop by over 25% then your child maintenance payments remain the same as they were when originally calculated. I think that's absolutely draconian. How out of touch are the people that have put this in place? Who out there (that's working…
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Child Maintenance advice
My ex-wife has proposed I pay her a ‘one off payment’ instead of my paying my monthly child maintenance. We have a consent order which has been in place for the last 3 years. The reason she has suggested this is that I’m about to retire and my financial earnings will drop as I will be living off my pension. Can this be…
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Employer/Private Pension and CMS
Hello need some advice please I am 39 years old, 40 next year, have one child Currently gross is 35k. I pay 5%, employer pays 3% into pension, has this been taken into account for CMS calculation since it started 2 years ago. my employer pension started in 2015, i was 34/35 at the time. As far as CMS is concerned, how much…
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Where do I stand and options on moving on/forward.....
I'll try to keep this short and to the point. Rewind to March 2019 my partner left me for someone she was seeing for around 4 and a half year's. Our daughter who is autistic and non verbal, is now 12 years old stayed with me through mutual agreement with her mother, mainly because her and I are closer and I can read…
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Upkeep of property. Who's Responsible?
Last summer new people moved into the house that backs on to ours, garden to garden. They had a 2mtr high fence constructed all around their garden, but left about a foot of their land outside of their fence. It needs to be weeded, which we have done until now. Today, while I was doing some DIY in our garden, the neighbour…
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Full Maternity Pay
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Marriage allowance claims company Amazon gift card
Hello. I recently went through Marriage allowance claims company {I know, should have gone through the HMRC} to claim what I could. I was interested in the £250 amazon voucher for recording a video testimonial.. So... I recorded it, sent it in and a few weeks later got a release form... Signed that and sent it back.. Now…
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Do we need to move or improve?
I have been contemplating moving house for years, 4 of us live here, me and wife and 2 daughters, the house is 2 bed mid terraced, rooms roughly 2 x 12x12 reception rooms, kitchen 14x6, we also have a parking space and garage, when we look at other houses much more expensive than ours they don’t seem any bigger, just laid…
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Relationship Breakdown - need advice
Something I didn't think I would be writing 6 months ago when we left the hospital with our twins, but the relationship has now reached a point where we no longer function as a family, bickering has given way to full blown arguments and there's the potential for it to get really quite toxic, both of us grew up in that kind…
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Should my wife and I spend all our savings?
Hi,
my wife and I are both 77. We have savings of 80K which has taken most of our
married life of 57 years. Sadly we have no company pensions only the sate
pension to keep us going. Our mortgage we paid off 20 years ago ( instead of
quality holidays others chose). We have no debts we do not believe in HP. Sadly
due to the…
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Hardest decision of my life
Hi, my family and i are from Bristol, and 10 years ago i met my future wife and at the time i relocated to Leeds. We have a 2 year old son, and unfortunately out marriage has broken down. I am self employed, and i have looked after our son for the past 2 years, 2 x per week, so i have only been working 3 full days a week…
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Money saving advice
Hi. We have a household income of £4200 per month after tax. Mortgage and all bills amount to £2600 that includes childminder,Food shopping ,Petrol etc. We have £1600 surplus every month yet never save a penny,It's only now we are on lockdown we are seeing how much we waste. We seem to spend so badly,Meals out,Clothes…
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Gift Allowance
Hi, my wife and I have separate bank accounts. If we want to make a gift of the allowable £3000 do we have to take £1500 from each account? Also, we did not make a gift in the last tax year so are we now able to give £6000 this year? thank you very much
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Advice needed with separating
Hi there, just hoping someone can give me some advice with the situation I am in with my now ex partner. Unfortunately the relationship has came to an end and the issue I have is the house is in both our names and I don’t want to sell it as I don’t want to disrupt our son even more. I could afford to buy her out but she is…