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Child Maintenance
If a child needs extra tuition outside of school, should the payment of this come out of the child maintenance that is paid to the resident payment?
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her maths is very weak so dad decided to look at some extra tuition and felt it only fair that both parents contribute towards the cost of £25per hour. So effectively £12.50 each per week. He knocked £12.50 off the maintenance payment to the mother who has now gone barking mad.
I'm just wondering because if he was an absent father, and she was having extra tuition, the mother would still get her weekly payment from him, out of which, she would pay for the tuition.
I'm just wondering because if he was an absent father, and she was having extra tuition, the mother would still get her weekly payment from him, out of which, she would pay for the tuition.
Pink-kittens please don't get me wrong, I absolutely do agree with you, but just out of interest, why do you think this is morally wrong? The dad is struggling to make ends meet having lost literally everything through the divorce, and the mum is sitting in a mortgage free house, that the dad bought, with her new husband, who has sold his house to move in with her and yet she is refusing to go halves on a bit of extra tuition for her daughter!
Something doesn't add up to me.... or is it just the system thats screwed?
Something doesn't add up to me.... or is it just the system thats screwed?
Why? Because he should be paying maintenance at what was agreed not deducting amounts for tuition fees. What next? the cat needed feeding and as it's XX then it come out of the maintenance?
If the dad struggling to make ends meet why on earth did he choose to get paid for tuition? How old is the child?
Also, how many nights a week does the child stay with the 'absent' parent?
If the dad struggling to make ends meet why on earth did he choose to get paid for tuition? How old is the child?
Also, how many nights a week does the child stay with the 'absent' parent?
At the moment there is no formal agreement or application with the CSA so any child maintenance is entirely voluntary. When there is a court order or the CSA are involved the non resident parent is only obliged to pay the assessed amount. Anything above that is discretionary but he must pay the amount stipulated in the court order or by the CSA.
Outside the rules for CM it is possible for a court to impose a ruling that a parent pays costs associated with education, for example, when a child attends a fee paying school. The courts then look at the financial situations of both parents (and the child). Usually the non resident parent is the higher earner so they either pay all the costs directly or make an additional contribution to the parent with the majority of care who then pays the bill.
Outside the rules for CM it is possible for a court to impose a ruling that a parent pays costs associated with education, for example, when a child attends a fee paying school. The courts then look at the financial situations of both parents (and the child). Usually the non resident parent is the higher earner so they either pay all the costs directly or make an additional contribution to the parent with the majority of care who then pays the bill.
