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Hi All
I am Brazilian married with with a British citizen and have a child in my native Brazil. The problem I am having is that my daughters mother wants to charge the child allowance from the past. this has amounted to thousands of pounds. we had a law agreement back in Brazil. I have every month deposited a child maintenance but because of exchange rates and the Brazilian minimum wages changes every year there is a difference between what has been deposited and what I supposed to deposit.
Just bear in mind that my daughter has never passed any time with me.
I want to know whether they can enforce this debt here in the UK. Whether i have to pay for that value. Is there any kind of agreement between Brazil and UK to enforce the child maintenance.
What the law says in UK regarding to this? Does the law chase fathers in the UK for non payment of child allowance?
thanks folks
Leo
Hi Leo
This might help, but by the look of it there is a reciprocal agreement between the UK and Brazil which means that she can apply to have any arrears for child maintenance enforced here....sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
https://www.gov.uk/child-maintenance-if-one-parent-lives-abroad/overview
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