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hi
i have been paying maintenance to my sons father every month with an agreed sum - my son is 18 yrs of age & working part-time & attending college - he is 19 yrs of age in December 2014 - he is off to university after college
how does his working affect my payments - can i reduce them - he is working over 15 hours per week
Hi There,
I am guessing that you have a private arrangement rather than a CSA/CMS based one?
If this is the case then you can discuss this with his father and ask to re assess what you pay between you, if it is a CMS/CSA based arrangement give them a call and ask them to assess the payments for you.
As a rule of thumb generally if child benefit is still being paid for the child (seems mad to call him that at 18yrs) then you are still liable.
GTTS
Hi deborahzz
Thank you for your post. I am William the Child Maintenance Options consultant. I will provide some information that may help answer your query.
Under child support legislation, 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 rules when child maintenance ends on Gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/when-child-maintenance-payments-stop.
However, if you and your son’s father have agreed child maintenance privately via a family-based arrangement, there are no strict rules to stick to. Therefore, both you and your son’s father have the freedom to decide the terms of your own arrangement, such as when your child maintenance will stop or reduce. This is because as family-based arrangement is not legally-binding and there is not involvement from the courts or the statutory child maintenance services.
Where child maintenance is being managed by either the Child Support Agency (CSA) or the Child Maintenance Service, you will need to contact the respective organisation who you have your case with to discuss your query. This is because we do not have any access to your case information. You can find the relevant contact details on any letters that you may have received or by visiting Gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/child-maintenance/contact.
If you and your son’s father have set up child maintenance via the courts in the form of a Consent Order or Minute of Agreement (for parents that live in Scotland), you will need to review the terms and conditions of your arrangement to gain clarification on what both of you have agreed. To help you with this, you may wish to seek legal advice.
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
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