Child maintance

[bootneck9]

Can you please tell me what child maintance payments are for. Does it include payment for the mother going to work and I have to pay for a child minder or is this covered in my payment of maintance?

[ojread2]

It would be unlikely you would be required to pay a childminder as a separate part of maintenance

Maintenance is to pay for: clothing, food, childcare, rent or mortgage, shoes, etc. All the things a child needs on a daily ongoing basis. If your ex chooses to use any monies that you pay for your son on childcare then that is her choice. So many absent parents say that monies paid should not be going on so and so but it is my opinion that what ever the parent with care is using that money for is none of the absent parent's business (unless of course it is illegal or of detriment to the child).

I'm not sure what you mean by include payment for mother going to work? Do you mean can she use it pay her bus/train fare? then yes, of course she can because she is going to work to pay for things the child needs. Whether she uses the money she earns or the money you pay is is neither here nor there.

Maybe if you can be a little more specific please
What have you been told by the mother?

[busta233]

What annoys me about people liek you is that you probably don't want to pay child maintenance.

It is unforgivable thtat you have brought a child into this world and should not pay part of their upkeep. When the father walks away he pays about �20 a week toward the child (depending on how much he earns - thats is he doesn't pack his job in).

I had to work full time in an office and behind a bar (2 evenings) and in a bookies on a saturday just to keep a roof over me and my sons head, because his father handed in his notice at the garage he worked in so he didn't have to pay us (but worked cash in hand 4 nights a week as a DJ). Absolute Tosh - and fathers say they have it hard.

[ojread2]

So different a story here busta
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question499 807.html