[Solved] changed financial circumstances

Hi David and welcome 🙂

Unfortunately your wifes wealth has no bearing on how much you pay. The amount you pay is determined by how much you earn.

There is a very informative sticky at the top of the Finance section that links to a CSA leaflet called "How does the CSA calculate payments" and you may find this useful.

For every night that your daughter stays with you 1/7th is deducted from the weekly payment, for 2 nights its 2/7ths and so on, this is explained in the leaflet that I mentioned.

In many situations that are reversed the wife would be entitled to half the husbands wealth - is that not the case here too?

Or am I being thick (again!!!)

Good point SM....It guess it would depend on whether the wealth was accumulated during the marriage or after.

If the childcare is split equally, then who pays who depends on who is getting the child benefit. Either way, the parent who doesn't get the benefit (and so is classed as the non-resident parent) would pay the other 7.5% less 7 pounds in this case.

Hi David.

I am William the Child Maintenance Options consultant.

We are a different organisation to the Child Support Agency (CSA), but I will try to point you in the right direction.

As actd has mentioned, when parents share equal care of a child, maintenance is usually paid to the parent in receipt of the Child benefit.

The CSA works out child maintenance payments using a set formula. This is based solely on your income. Other factors are taken into account (including the number of children that need child maintenance, and if you have any other children living with you)

They can reduce the amount of child maintenance that you pay, if your daughter stays overnight with you on average at least one night a week. The reduction will take in to account the number of times your daughter stays overnight.
If you are able to discuss and negotiate with your daughter's mother, you may wish to consider setting up a family-based arrangement. Many parents choose to sort out child maintenance this way. It is simply an agreement between the two of you about who will provide what for your daughter. It can include money and other kinds of support, for example providing clothes or paying for activities.

A family-based arrangement is not legally binding but it is flexible and can be changed as your daughter's needs change. This type of arrangement is made without involving the CSA or needing to disclose personal information to a third party.

If you would like an idea how much child maintenance the CSA could work out, you can use our online calculator. This is on our website at http://www.cmoptions.org/en/calculator. You may want to use this figure as a starting point for negotiations to make a family-based arrangement.

If you can agree a child maintenance arrangement, you can record the details on our family-based arrangement form. Although this Is not a legally enforceable document, it puts the agreement on a more formal basis. You can download this from our website.

For more information about family-based arrangements and access to useful tools and forms online you can visit http://www.cmoptions.org, or if you would prefer a confidential chat you could call the Child Maintenance Options team on 0800 988 0988 (free from a landline).