Sentences with phrase «for child maintenance»

It typically takes between 1 - 3 months to put a court order for child maintenance in place, depending on your circumstances.

If your gross weekly income is more than # 3,000, you'll need to apply to the court for a child maintenance «top - up» order to be made.

You don't need to include money paid for child maintenance or your children's income and some maternity benefits are partly excluded.

The courts can make a consent order for child maintenance which says that the parent expected to pay must keep to the child maintenance payments they have agreed.

Parents can also ask foreign authorities to create an order for child maintenance on their behalf.

If you have an existing court order for child maintenance that you want to enforce in another country, contact the court where it was made.

In turn, the Child Support Act 1991 allows a parent to make an application for child maintenance with no distinction being drawn between a couple who have been married and a couple that have merely cohabited.

DWP is responsible for the child maintenance system in Great Britain.

The Child Support Act provides the legal framework for child maintenance payments through the Government's statutory child maintenance service.

There is however now a requirement for any parent applying for a child maintenance assessment to consider alternatives such as entering into a «family based arrangement» i.e. agreeing with the other parent how much maintenance should be paid.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for the child maintenance system in Great Britain.

That's why we plan a fresh start for child maintenance with all parents given much better support and a fair chance to make their own, family - based, arrangements.»

15:15 - Janet Allbeson, Senior Policy Adviser at Gingerbread speaks in front of the committee on Public Accounts on: Structured cost reduction for the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission

Responsibility for child maintenance rests with both parents.

We have published separate leaflets and factsheets for Child Maintenance Service cases, — «2012 scheme» cases.

We have published separate leaflets and factsheets for Child Maintenance Service cases, — «2012 scheme» cases.

You may prefer to agree a figure for child maintenance in a private agreement that is based on the CMS calculation.

That is also why we are saying that, where there is a payment, parents should be able to keep all of it and that there should be a complete disregard for child maintenance payments and benefits.

A nominal charge - back on the capital exchanged for child maintenance could be retained.

The current emphasis for child maintenance is now private maintenance agreements, with resort to the Child Maintenance Service only when these are unworkable.

[29] However, in Bell v. Bell, 1999 BCCA 497, this Court held that actual income earned was a fairer representation of income available for child maintenance, despite (and apparently because of) «considerable fluctuation» in the payor's income:

For child maintenance administered by the CMS, a child is anyone under 16 or someone between 16 and 20 who:

This leaflet explains how the Child Support Agency (CSA) works out child maintenance for child maintenance cases opened between 5 April 1993 and 2 March 2003.

The receiving parent doesn't need to re-apply for child maintenance.

(However, in certain circumstances, someone under 20 can still be regarded as a child for child maintenance purposes by the CMS even if they are not in full - time non-advanced education.)

If you've been overpaying for child maintenance, you may be able to recoup some of the money.

175 nights or more nights: child maintenance is reduced by 50 %, plus an extra # 7 a week reduction for each child

In 2008 the CSA became part of the newly established Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission which took over responsibility for the child maintenance system.

This factsheet explains what happens when we ask an employer to take money from a parent's earnings or pension to pay for child maintenance.

On 25th November 2013, the Child Maintenance Service («CMS») replaced the Child Support Agency («CSA») as the organisation responsible for child maintenance.

There are limited circumstances when you or your ex-partner can apply directly to the court for child maintenance.

Legal Aid won't always cover these costs if you are only going to court to get a consent order for child maintenance.

When a liability order is made — as the law now stands: further embellishments to this already primitive scheme are proposed by the Child Mainteneance and Other Payments Act 2008 and await implementation — then three main possibilities open up for Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (the Commission) whose operations are still carried out by the Child Support Agency (CSA):

These can be payments for child maintenance, household utilities, mortgage or household upkeep.

Note that the 2007 Convention includes provision for applications for child maintenance, for a child is aged under 21, and also spousal support (linked to child maintenance and stand alone), ie it is wider than the previous provisions on enforcement.

Outside of the age ranges and educational requirements of the CMS, you would have to apply to the courts for child maintenance.

This leaflet only covers «old scheme» cases — where applications for child maintenance were made between 5 April 1993 and 2 March 2003.

A court may make an order for child maintenance.

Parents with a court order for child maintenance can try and get this enforced in a foreign country.

If you have a court order for child maintenance, you must stick to the agreement set out in the court order.