With
a statutory child maintenance arrangement the paying parent must pay the amounts calculated by the statutory child maintenance service.
Our child maintenance calculator can give you an indication of the amount of child maintenance you might pay or receive if you had
a statutory child maintenance arrangement (an arrangement made through the government's child maintenance service).
There are three main ways to pay child maintenance if you have
a statutory child maintenance arrangement:
Remember that the figure our calculator produces is only an indication of the amount of child maintenance you might pay or receive if you had
a statutory child maintenance arrangement.
If you have
statutory child maintenance arrangement the Child Maintenance Service will make the decision for you.
If you have
a statutory child maintenance arrangement, regular child maintenance payments must be made if a child is:
Our calculator can give you an indication of the amount of child maintenance you might pay or receive if you had
a statutory child maintenance arrangement.
Our child maintenance calculator can give you an indication of the amount of child maintenance you might pay or receive if you had
a statutory child maintenance arrangement when the parent expected to pay is on benefits.
With
a statutory child maintenance arrangement, you have to pay the amounts calculated by the statutory child maintenance service.
You can get an idea of what
a statutory child maintenance arrangement amount may be using our child maintenance calculator.
If you can't make a family - based arrangement work for you, you can make
a statutory child maintenance arrangement.
Important: Currently, parents can not set up
a statutory child maintenance arrangement within 12 months of setting up a consent order or a minute of agreement.
If you have
a statutory child maintenance arrangement, you or the statutory child maintenance service can't control how the money is spent.
For more information on the different types of statutory arrangements, including Collect & Pay and Direct Pay (or Maintenance Direct if you have a CSA case) you can read about
statutory child maintenance arrangements
Most
statutory child maintenance arrangements can be put in place within about 6 weeks of the application being made — much depends on the information available and the co-operation of both parties.
This applies to all kinds of child maintenance payments, including family - based arrangements,
statutory child maintenance arrangements and court orders.
Not exact matches
You can't apply to the
Child Maintenance Service for a
statutory arrangement until a year after you've arranged a consent or court order, or Minute of Agreement in Scotland.
All of these names simply refer to an
arrangement that you have made for your family without involving the
statutory child maintenance service or the courts.
The
statutory child maintenance service can't get involved in family - based
arrangements.
The
Child Maintenance Service uses slightly different rules to the
Child Support Agency, which is closed to new applications but still manages many
statutory arrangements set up before December 2013.
If that's not possible, you can make a
statutory arrangement through the
Child Maintenance Service.
As well as changing the
child maintenance organisational structure, the Government is also proposing a number of controversial changes to its operation, designed to encourage parents to make their own
maintenance arrangements without resorting to a
statutory collection scheme.
Information about
child maintenance arrangements run by the statutory child maintenance service, from Child Maintenance Opt
child maintenance arrangements run by the statutory child maintenance service, from Child Maintenan
maintenance arrangements run by the
statutory child maintenance service, from Child Maintenance Opt
child maintenance service, from Child Maintenan
maintenance service, from
Child Maintenance Opt
Child MaintenanceMaintenance Options.
If you can't make a family - based
arrangement you may be able to use the
Child Maintenance Service to make a
statutory arrangement.
When a family - based
arrangement isn't possible, separated parents can use the
statutory child maintenance service.
If you can't reach agreement with the other parent and make a
child maintenance arrangement by yourselves, the Government runs a
statutory service that can arrange
child maintenance on your behalf.
You can ask the
statutory child maintenance services to put a
child maintenance arrangement in place, without you having to contact the other parent.
This is where parents make
arrangements for their
child without involving the courts, or the Government's
statutory child maintenance service.
Statutory arrangements are arrangements put in place by the Government's statutory child maintenance
Statutory arrangements are
arrangements put in place by the Government's
statutory child maintenance
statutory child maintenance service.
The
Child Maintenance Service opened in 2012 and now manages all new applications for a
statutory arrangement.
The main difference between a
Maintenance Direct or Direct Pay arrangement and a family - based arrangement is that the statutory child maintenance service decides on the amount — and this means it's legal
Maintenance Direct or Direct Pay
arrangement and a family - based
arrangement is that the
statutory child maintenance service decides on the amount — and this means it's legal
maintenance service decides on the amount — and this means it's legally binding.
Since 2012, the
Child Maintenance Service has managed all statutory (legally enforceable) child maintenance arrangem
Child Maintenance Service has managed all statutory (legally enforceable) child maintenance ar
Maintenance Service has managed all
statutory (legally enforceable)
child maintenance arrangem
child maintenance ar
maintenance arrangements.