Welcome to the DAD.Info forum: Important Information – open to read:
Our forum aims to provide support and guidance where it can, however we may not always have the answer. The forum is not moderated 24 hours a day, so If you – or someone you know – are being harmed or in immediate danger of being harmed, call the police on 999.
Alternatively, if you are in crisis, please call Samaritans on 116 123.
If you are worried about you or someone you know is at risk of harm, please click here: How we can help
Hi, can you please help, I have been paying child maintenance for over 18 years, my daughter will be 19 in Sept this year
she has studied in England for two years come June.
Because she is only studying at further education and not higher education i was told that i had to support her as she did not qualify
for a bursary
I have recently found out that my daughter has been accepted to university studying at degree level which she will start at the new term.
Can anyone tell me when i stop paying maintenance as i know that she can now apply for a bursary.
many thanks.
Is she starting Uni in September?
If so you would stop payment at that point I think..Usually when they leave school or college in the June to start Uni in September payment continues until the beginning of September.
Hi Duncy
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 the UK statutory rules, 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 UK statutory rules on when child maintenance will stop on Gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/when-child-maintenance-payments-stop.
With regards to child maintenance, you have not mentioned the type of agreement that you have in place with your daughter’s other parent.
If you have a family-based arrangement in place with your daughter’s other parent, there are no strict rules to stick to. Therefore, you and your daughter’s other parent have the freedom to decide the terms of your own arrangement, such as when you will stop financially supporting your daughter. This is because a family-based arrangement is not legally-binding, however, many parents prefer them because of their flexibility and ease of which they can be reviewed, such as if you or your daughter’s other parent’s circumstances change.
Where child maintenance has been set up via the UK statutory child maintenance service (the Child Support Agency (CSA) or the Child Maintenance Service), you may wish to contact the organisation that is managing your case to discuss your query. You can find the relevant contact details on any letters or information packs that you have received, or for the CSA, via Gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/child-support-agency.
If you have a court order in place for child maintenance, you will need to check on the terms and conditions of your arrangement to clarify when your payments will stop. To do 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
Welcome to the DAD.info forum.
We don’t like to set ‘rules’, but to make sure that you and the other dads are kept safe, we have some requests. When engaging with the forum, please be aware of the following:
- The forum is not moderated 24 hours per day.
- Many of the moderators do so on a voluntary basis. Whilst they may be able to provide some guidance, advice or support, they may not be able to deal with specifics.
- We are not an emergency crisis service so if you or someone else is in immediate danger, please call emergency services.
- If you are concerned about the safety of a child, please click here to find the support you can get for them (link to new page)
- If you are in crisis, please call Samaritans on 116 123. They are open 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.
We hope you find this forum a supportive environment and thank you for joining us.