Sunday, March 9th, 2008 |
When does child maintenance end?
The circumstances of the birth and life of a child determines when child maintenance ends after a divorce. A father does not, for example, have parental responsibility for a child that was born when the parents were not married. Unless he: registered the birth jointly with the mother after December, 2003, both parents had a formal parental responsibility agreement drawn up, a court granted the father legal parental responsibility, the father is appointed as guardian, or the parents marry.
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Great article about child maintenance payment obligation. The upshot being that you’ll have to pay for as long as your children are in full time education (not including college or university)
Fair enough I think, although I imagine how some people might actually try and dissuade their children from staying on at school, just to save a bob or two. 
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 |
This is a handy little tool for working out how much an estranged parent is likely to pay in child maintenance.
https://secureonline.dwp.gov.uk/csa/v2/en/calculate-maintenance.asp
The amount of child maintenance worked out by our online calculator may be different from the child maintenance that we worked out and asked a non-resident parent to pay, or the amount that has been agreed in court as part of a consent order. This should not be used as grounds for appealing against our decision or for asking a court to change a consent order.
There are a number of circumstances which are not covered by the online calculator. These include when the non-resident parent’s income is greater than £2000 per week, non-resident parents who receive a benefit, cases where maintenance will be shared between two or more parents with care and variations for exceptional circumstances.
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