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Hi All,
I've been paying maintenance for my daughter since 2005, We started with a voluntary agreement where I paid 15% of my NET income less an agreed deduction but the difference was that as my daughter stayed almost 3 nights a week on average we would do a 2.5/7 calc rather than 2/7.
For some unexplained reason my ex decided to go through the CSA about 5 years ago, thus my payments increased because i did not have my daughter 3 nights a week.
Now that the voluntary agreements have been given back to us by the CSA my ex has now insisted on looking again and cited the government website that calculates using gross income after pension contributions rather than NET income. I can't ever remember seeing this calculation in all the years I've been checking. All the other calculations on line start off by asking Net.
The result is an increase by about £25 a month. I can't understand why this has changed (has it??!)
Simon.
Hi Simon
You can check your liability here;
http://www.cmoptions.org/en/calculator/calculator.asp
Child Maintenance Options have a useful helpline you can use for advice on calculations.
I'm guessing the change is due to the difference between 2.5/7 and 2/7 - the CMS work in 52 night whole multiples.
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