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MikeHogg - If I buy a house and I'm not divorced is my wife still entitled to future purchases, we are separated?
Answer: do you need to buy a house now. Might be best waiting till your divorced settlement is agreed.
Hi yes I left my ex wife in November 2014 and I’ve always paid maintenance by standing order roughly around the amount I woukd if it was through child maintenance options. During this time I have had my daughter alternate weekends and school holidays.
This year I applied for a court order for shared care and managed to get this in court so I now have my daughter week on week off I have continued to pay full child maintenance as before.
So the question is I’m I liable to pay maintainance when we share 50/50 shared care ?
With a strict 50/50 shared care, then there is no child maintenance liability, but be warned that the CMS don't always see that it's true shared care, so keep a diary of the way the days are shared, that may help later on.
I keep finding mixed information about child maintenance and 50/50 shard care.
If I have a 50/50 parent plan, but the higher earner out of the two of us. Do I have to pay child maintenance?
I’m not against paying it by the way, it just changes some separation plans.
Also, if I was to make my ex a financial offer. Eg buy her out, pay off all our debt, give her extra money to buy a house. But get something written up to say there is no further financial request on each other. Will that been seen as legal or what do I have to do, to make it legal?
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