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My son will be leaving school in May,and will be starting University in September, can you tell me when the child maintenance payment to my ex will stop?
cheers
Hi
Your maintenance should stop in September (the course probably doesn't officially finish until June/July)
Hello Loopyleeming
Thank you for your post. 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. If the child is in advanced or higher education, they will no longer qualify for child maintenance. You can find more information on when child maintenance stops on Gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/when-child-maintenance-payments-stop.
If you and your ex-partner have a family-based arrangement in place for child maintenance, there are no strict rules that both of you need to stick to. Therefore, you and your ex-partner have the freedom to decide between yourselves when your child maintenance will stop. Even though family-based arrangements are not legally-binding, they give parents the flexibility to decide when their child maintenance will be reviewed.
Where child maintenance has been arranged using either the Child Support Agency (CSA) or the Child Maintenance Service, you will need to contact the organisation that is managing your child maintenance to discuss your query on when payment will cease.
If you and your ex-partner have set up child maintenance via the courts (in the form of a Consent Order or Minute of Agreement), you will need to review the terms of your order to clarify what was originally agreed. To do this, you may wish to seek legal advice.
To discuss child maintenance in further detail, you may wish to contact Child Maintenance Options directly. Their contact details can be found on their website at http://www.cmoptions.org.
The DWP 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.
Kind regards
William
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