If the parent without the main day-to-day care is claiming benefits, can child maintenance still be arranged?
Yes. With a private agreement you can arrange child maintenance in any way that you and the other parent both agree to. That might mean paying one amount of child maintenance when the parent without the main day-to-day care is working and another amount when that parent is claiming benefits. You can still choose to arrange child maintenance using the CSA if one or both parents are claiming benefits. If you ask the CSA to put in place an arrangement for you, they will calculate the level of child maintenance, so they would need to re-calculate child maintenance whenever the income of the parent without the main day-to-day care changes significantly. Our child maintenance calculator can give you an indication of the amount of child maintenance you might pay or receive if you had an arrangement using the CSA.
Related Questions
- If the parent without the main day-to-day care is claiming benefits, can child maintenance still be arranged?
- What happens if the parent without the main day-to-care of the child refuses to pay child maintenance?
- Does child maintenance simply mean money paid to the parent with the main day-to-day care?
