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Hi. I’m looking for some info and ye may be able to help me. I have a new born in England. And I’m trying to sort out maintenance. I’m not a UK resident but Irish. I’m trying to come to a verbal arrangement with the mother of the baby. We were not married or in a long term relationship. She keep staring the 12% gross figure. I’m trying to come an agreement on a figure that allows me to travel regularly to the U.K. to see the child and be a father. By paying this figure it restricts my amount of visits in the year by at least half as I just couldn’t afford to get over as often as I would like too. Is there any guides on this or help?
The 12% gross is the CMS figure, which is correct assuming you have no other children. If you wish to travel, then the costs of this are deducted from your gross income, to the best of my knowledge, and then the new gross figure is used in the calculation - what that means is that 12% of your travel costs are deducted from your maintenance payments.
hi jimmy,
use this CMS calculator to work out how much you should be paying:
https://www.gov.uk/calculate-child-maintenance
it would be better if you can come to own agreement with ex. i ended up going through official CMS route and the amount they worked out was more or less the same as what that calculator works out for you.
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