How does the child maintenance service check income?
The Child Maintenance Service will find out the paying parent’s yearly gross income from information supplied by HM Revenue and Customs ( HMRC ). They’ll also check if the paying parent is getting benefits (tax credits, student grants and loans don’t count as income). The ‘paying parent’ doesn’t have main day-to-day care of the child.
How does child maintenance work in the UK?
The ‘receiving parent’ has main day-to-day care of the child. The Child Maintenance Service will check for things that could change the gross income amount (for example, pension payments or other children they support). Then they’ll convert the yearly gross income into a weekly figure.
Who pays child maintenance when you share custody?
That’s not right as under complicated child maintenance law rules if both parents equally share the care of their children neither parent will pay child maintenance to the other parent.
Can a non-resident parent pay for Child Maintenance?
Child maintenance is only payable if one of the parents is classed under child maintenance rules as the ‘non-resident parent, or in other words, there isn’t an equal shared care arrangement. This means that the other parent is classed under child maintenance rules as the ’parent with care’;
The Child Maintenance Service will find out the paying parent’s yearly gross income from information supplied by HM Revenue and Customs ( HMRC ). They’ll also check if the paying parent is getting benefits (tax credits, student grants and loans don’t count as income). The ‘paying parent’ doesn’t have main day-to-day care of the child.
The ‘receiving parent’ has main day-to-day care of the child. The Child Maintenance Service will check for things that could change the gross income amount (for example, pension payments or other children they support). Then they’ll convert the yearly gross income into a weekly figure.
When does child maintenance deduct shared care nights?
This is when a paying parent’s child stays overnight with them. In these cases, the Child Maintenance Service makes a deduction to the weekly child maintenance amount based on the average number of ‘shared care’ nights a week.