A child periodical payments order was made (in a consent order on divorce), to end on the child completing their secondary education or attaining the age of 18, and has...
A financial consent order between spouses made provision for spousal maintenance and for child maintenance until the child (now nearly age 19) finishes tertiary...
A financial order between former spouses makes provision for periodical payments for the children. The Child Maintenance Service has not been asked to make a maintenance...
A non-resident parent (NRP) is self-employed via their own company, and able to select how company funds are applied for their benefit (including meeting quasi-personal...
A parent earns overseas income which is not included in their UK tax return, as well as UK income. Will the overseas income be treated as income for the purposes of a...
A paying parent’s gross income is less than £156,000 per annum, but they also receive a transport allowance, shares and bonuses. Which of those benefits, if any, will a...
A periodical payments order for the benefit of a child was made in 2003. The order provides for periodical payments until the child attains the age of 18, or ceases...
Are there any circumstances in which a connection will be made between the payment of child maintenance and contact between the paying parent and the child, in particular...
Are there any recently reported cases in relation to an application for periodical payments under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 for the benefit of a child, where...
Can a child maintenance claim be made for a child who is age 17 where the parents agreed that a claim would not be made, and the child sometimes splits their time equally...
Can a mother of a disabled child seek periodical payments under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 to cover the cost of the mortgage repayments on the family home?...
Can a non-biological father be liable to pay child maintenance to the biological mother either by virtue of a calculation by the Child Maintenance Service or as a result...
Can a parent (in divorce proceedings and before a final order has been made regarding financial matters) apply to the court for a child maintenance order for a child who...
Can a party send copies of documents that were annexed to the Form E filed by the other party in ancillary relief proceedings to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) with...
Can a relative who does not have day-to-day care of a child who has attained the age of 18 and who is in full time education at a college (less than A level equivalent),...
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Can the court make an order in financial order proceedings on divorce or dissolution for the payment of university fees for a child of the family who is over the age of...
Can the court make an order within financial proceedings, or otherwise take into account, overpayments of child maintenance made under a statutory child support...
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If a consent order includes provision for child maintenance in financial remedy proceedings, but no order for spousal maintenance, would there be a clean break in respect...
If a financial consent order is silent as to school fees and a spouse wishes to make an application for the other spouse to pay schools fees, is the application commenced...
If a non-resident parent (NRP) is in receipt of state pension and private pension income and has shared care of the children then the Child Maintenance Service (CMS)...
If there is a child maintenance order in place, and one party then obtains an assessment by the child maintenance service invalidating the terms of the order, and the...
