[Solved] Child Maintainance (without CSA)

It depends whether he is still in full time non advanced education.

The CSA guidelines are 16 unless in full time education or college, in which case it stops at 20.

My son and daughter are both at college, not in any part-time for Full-time work at the moment

It's still payable for now then Wizard

Thank you Huxley for your reply, another question answered and has put my mind at rest on this particular subject 🙂

Hi Wizard

Thank you for your post. I am William the Child Maintenance Options consultant. I can provide some information that may help answer your query.

If you and your wife agreed child maintenance via a family-based arrangement, there are no strict rules to stick to as there is no court or statutory involvement. Therefore, both you and your wife have the freedom to decide the terms of your own arrangement, such as when you will stop paying child maintenance for your children.

A family-based arrangement can include money and other kinds of support, such as you directly paying for things that your children may need. Although family-based arrangements are not legally-binding, many parents prefer them because of their flexibility and how easy the arrangement can be reviewed, such as if you or your ex-wife’s circumstances change. You can find more information on family-based arrangements on our website at http://www.cmoptions.org/en/family/index.asp .

We have a range of tools and guides on our website that may help keep your family-based arrangement amicable. These include our discussion guide which you can use to help you plan conversations around child maintenance. We also have a family-based arrangement form which is not a legally-binding document, but if used to write down what both of you have agreed, it can help to formalise your arrangement.

To give you an indication of how much child maintenance that may be calculated if you were to use the Child Maintenance Service, we have an online calculator on our website at http://www.cmoptions.org/en/calculator/. You and your wife can use this tool when negotiating child maintenance for your family-based arrangement.

If you wanted to use the statutory rules for your arrangement, as the other members have mentioned, regular child maintenance payments must be made until a child is 16 years old, or 20 if they are in full-time, non-advanced education (A-level or equivalent), or for as long as Child Benefit is being paid. When a child leaves full-time education in the summer, Child Benefit generally continues until the first week of September. You can find more information on the statutory rules on Gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/when-child-maintenance-payments-stop.

For more information on the ways to set up child maintenance, please visit our website at http://www.cmoptions.org. Alternatively, you can call us free on 0800 988 0988 between 8am and 8pm Monday to Friday or 9am and 4pm on a Saturday. We have a sorting out separation web-app that you may find useful. It offers help and support to separating and separated families. The link is: www.dad.info/divorce-and-separation/sorting-out-separation.

Regards

William

Many thanks for the info William