4 Options For Arranging Child Maintenance

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4 Options For Arranging Child Maintenance

• If you are divorced and have children, both
  parents are expected to pay for the cost of
  bringing up their children till they are 16 years
  of age. There are 4 different options in which
  you can pay for your child maintenance.

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Family-Based Arrangement

• You and your ex-partner mutually decides how
  child maintenance should be dealt.
• It is a general practice that both of the parents
  pay for child maintenance till the children are
  at least 16 years of age.

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Direct Pay

• If you are unable to decide how much money should
  be paid for child maintenance, you can consult
  Child Maintenance Service (CMS).
• CMS calculates the amount of money needed for the
  child maintenance.
• The partners still have to decide how they are
  going to pay the amount.

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Collect And Pay

• Ex-Partners usually can have bad terms with each
  other.
• If the ex-partners dont want to stay in contact,
  the CMS can collect the money from one partner
  and can send to the other.

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Court-Ordered Arrangement

• The child maintenance is decided by the court if
  a parent has a very high level of income.
• This thing is also practiced if it is to be
  decided how much to pay for step children or
  disabled children.
• Court-ordered arrangement is also used if either
  of the parent lives abroad.

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