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Hello all
I have a consent order which includes child maintenance payments for my child who is now 18.
Due to corona my working hrs are now less, therefore my pay is much less.
Am I entitled to pay less according to my reduced salary and how do I go about reducing the payments?
We are not on speaking terms btw.
Thanks for reading
hi,
how old is consent order? if it states fixed amount for child maintenance, you should carry on paying. does it tell you for low long to pay maintenance till? other issue is do you know what your son is doing? has he left full-time education?
if you dont talk to ex and not able to agree to change maintenance amount, then maybe you could go back to court to change consent order?
check this cms calculator to see what you would be paying if you were paying maintenance through CMS:
https://www.gov.uk/calculate-child-maintenance
The consent order is 9 months old and states the amount will be adjusted if I change employment and until child is 18 or finishes secondary education , whichever is the later.
Unfortunately I don’t have any info about the child’s education but she is supposed to finish this summer.
The payments are not via CMS.
Does the order give a fixed amount, or is it a percentage of your income?
As the order is 9 months old, she can't go the CMS for another 3 months. I would work out how much you would be paying under CMS and if it's no more than you are paying, then you might be as well sitting it out for 3 months and then opening a case yourself with CMS to supercede the court order.
The order states a fixed amount.
I don’t know if she passed her GCSEs last year, the school doesn’t want to tell me because of data protection. .... /-: and I don’t know about her future education plans.
The order states a fixed amount.
I don’t know if she passed her GCSEs last year, the school doesn’t want to tell me because of data protection. .... /-: and I don’t know about her future education plans.
thats very silly of them. are you named as father on her birth certificate, and do you have it? maybe good idea to arrange appointment with school and take that with you. tell them you have parental responsibility/rights. if your not getting anywhere you could contact your local MP/counsillor for help.
The school told me that because the child is over 16 that the gcse results belong to the child and that therefore they aren't allowed to hand them over to me. So how am I supposed to find out if my daughter is still in education or what she's doing?
is there any way to speak to your child or see her? maybe on social media?
No, because the ex made her change surname etc. ... /-:
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