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Quick question. My 18 (19 in Oct) yr old son was working part time in a restaurant while part time at college, when I was paying child support to his mother (I also have 2 younger kids I pay for from a 2nd divorce...). He failed maths and english at NVQ2/GCSE level and so far has not enrolled on a course for 2018 (says trying to get late enrolment). However he now has a full time job at the restaurant working approx 40hrs/5 days a week and as I see it will struggle to get the 12hrs that class as 'full time' education. His mother is insistent I should be paying until next year if he is at college. I think I should stop and divert funds to the younger 2 but need a definitive answer. Should I be paying?
Hi There,
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If he enrolls in a course, then you would need to keep paying, as he would be working in the feild that he is, the shifts could easily be worked around education, when you think that he would be working 40hrs a week over 7 days and extended hours as well.
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GTTS
Hello rmac
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. Full-time, non-advanced education is 12 hours or more per week of classroom study, at A-level equivalent or below.
Child maintenance generally runs alongside Child Benefit. When a child leaves full-time education in the summer, Child Benefit usually continues until the first week of September.
If the arrangement you currently have in place is a mutual agreement set up between you and your son’s mother, it is entirely down to the both of you to agree on when payments stop.
If you have an existing case in place with either the Child Support Agency (CSA) or the Child Maintenance Service, you may wish to contact them directly to find out when your payments will stop. You can usually find their contact details on any letters they have sent you.
If a court order is in place for your child maintenance payments, you would need to refer back to your documentation to see when payments end. If this is not clear, you may wish to seek legal advice for further support.
For a more personalised response, you may wish to contact Child Maintenance Options directly at http://www.cmoptions.org.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have a website, 'Sorting out Separation'. It aims to make it much easier for separating and separated parents (and childless couples) to find the support they need, when and where they need it, and encourages them to collaborate on a range of issues. The link is https://www.sortingoutseparation.org.uk/.
Regards
William
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