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I am trying to gather the figures together to run through the CMS calculator & have a query, hopefully someone has dealt with this before.
I have made a commitment & plan on carrying it out - that there'll be several holidays per year where child, and both parents are present. For these nights, we will both be looking after our child but including (or splitting) these nights as "staying with me" is the difference between being in one CMS band or another so I'd like to get the calculations as accurate as possible for budgeting purposes.
Hi,
I don't think CMS have a policy on joint holidays. I recommend this group for paying parents. very useful: https://www.facebook.com/groups/239699060076601
At present, I assume things are reasonably amicable with your ex as you are sharing holidays. The question is, how much difference in maintenance payments would the difference in bands make? I would suggest that you either speak to your ex about it, and perhaps split the difference between the two bands, or simply don't pursue it on the basis that you ex might then not be so amicable and you could lose some of your contact days.
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