Maintenance and Other Financial Provisions for Children on Separation
Better understand your options and rights around child maintenance with this comprehensive package; we explain how to claim for or defend a claim of maintenance, how to resolve disagreements and more.
/ In this package, our legal experts have addressed the following questions:
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When can you apply for the maintenance for your child; what conditions must be met?
Can you agree on arrangements regarding maintenance payments for your child without applying to the Child Maintenance Service?
What to do if you cannot agree on an arrangement for maintenance payments for your child?
When can the Family Court make a maintenance order instead of there being a Child Maintenance Service assessment?
How does the Child Maintenance Service calculate how much maintenance should be paid?
How much does an application to the Child Maintenance Service for a child maintenance assessment cost?
What happens once the Child Maintenance Service has carried out an assessment; how can you manage payments between ourselves?
How does the Collect & Pay system work to manage payments for child maintenance between the parents?
How will collection fees through a Collect & Pay arrangement work?
How does Direct Pay system work to manage child maintenance payments?
How much does it cost to enforce a child maintenance order?
How long will a child maintenance arrangement last?
What kind of claim for financial provision (in addition to maintenance) can you bring on behalf of your child as an unmarried parent (Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989)?
You are an unmarried parent; which factors will the Court consider when they decide whether to make an award on the claim for financial provision for your child?
How long will a child maintenance order be maintained?
Who may apply for periodical or lump sum payments under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989?
Who can orders under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 be made against?
What are the powers of the court to issue orders under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 when child lives in a different jurisdiction but the paying parent is living within England and Wales?
What procedure should be followed to apply for an order under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989?
* Based on a £300 average hourly rate for solicitors across the country.
When can you apply for the maintenance for your child; what conditions must be met?
Can you agree on arrangements regarding maintenance payments for your child without applying to the Child Maintenance Service?
What to do if you cannot agree on an arrangement for maintenance payments for your child?
When can the Family Court make a maintenance order instead of there being a Child Maintenance Service assessment?
How does the Child Maintenance Service calculate how much maintenance should be paid?
How much does an application to the Child Maintenance Service for a child maintenance assessment cost?
What happens once the Child Maintenance Service has carried out an assessment; how can you manage payments between ourselves?
How does the Collect & Pay system work to manage payments for child maintenance between the parents?
How will collection fees through a Collect & Pay arrangement work?
How does Direct Pay system work to manage child maintenance payments?
How much does it cost to enforce a child maintenance order?
How long will a child maintenance arrangement last?
What kind of claim for financial provision (in addition to maintenance) can you bring on behalf of your child as an unmarried parent (Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989)?
You are an unmarried parent; which factors will the Court consider when they decide whether to make an award on the claim for financial provision for your child?
How long will a child maintenance order be maintained?
Who may apply for periodical or lump sum payments under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989?
Who can orders under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 be made against?
What are the powers of the court to issue orders under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 when child lives in a different jurisdiction but the paying parent is living within England and Wales?
What procedure should be followed to apply for an order under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989?
* Based on a £300 average hourly rate for solicitors across the country.
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