child maintenance

Child maintenance is another significant point of difference between the two systems.

This can have an effect on the amount of child maintenance that has to be paid.

Today only one in three eligible children get child maintenance.

"The vast majority of people will end up with lower child maintenance than at present," he said.

Quite a lot of young girls, however, choose not to sue for child maintenance.

During 2008, the Commission began to offer information and support on the different child maintenance options available to parents.

This meant less pay, which, along with no child maintenance, has made things difficult financially for the family.

Another option open to any single mother is to sue the baby's father for child maintenance.

A new method of child maintenance calculation came into effect on March 3, 2003.

A child maintenance premium will be introduced from April 2002.

You may pay less child maintenance for children not living with you.

Once pregnant she can steal his house and force him to pay 18 years worth of child maintenance.

He also offered to no longer request these rights if the child maintenance order was made void.

The service also has an online child maintenance calculator that anyone can use.

The Fund also covers child maintenance claims, hence the name.

Child maintenance is without doubt the greatest source of many complains.

Mrs Miller said the child maintenance system costs £460 million a year.

Only a very small percentage of applications for child maintenance are contested.

It does not include income from sources such as alimony and child maintenance.

The organisation provides advice to separated parents on child maintenance payments.

Soon she hopes to secure an extra £900 per month in child maintenance payments from her son's father.

There are currently further Government proposals to review the system determining child maintenance.

That disregarded amount is known as the child maintenance premium.

The new system for calculating child maintenance will be simpler than the one currently in place.

From 10 December 2012 a new system of child maintenance began operation, initially for specific applicants.