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Hi all looking for some info
My Ex died a year ago my children 16 decided she wanted to stay living with the step sister who has now applied to csa for maintanance.
my boy Jack lives with me 13 ..
now heres the question if my ex was alive then we would be classed as sharing the children so no csa payments due to either party.. doesanybody know if the same thing applies in this case as she has sought guardianship through the courts and the csa is telling me i should pay 15% s this right :-)) dont get me wrong i do want to support my daughter but not happy with this situation as i feel it is wrong..!!!!
Hi Dickens,
I have moved your post here as it is the best place for it on the forum.
I will ask Child Maintenance Options to pop by and offer you some wise words of advice.
Gooner.
Just read this and had a think.
If your daughter had come to live with you then you would be funding her anyway so it makes sense, to me, that the CSA would expect you to help finance you daughters upbringing.
Your daughters, step sister is not the biological parent of your son - so you are not sharing the care or am I missing something ?
Hello
Thanks for your post. I'm Sarah, the Child Maintenance Options Consultant. When biological parents have two children and one child lives with each parent, they are both responsible to pay child maintenance to the other parent.
Child maintenance is generally paid to the person with the main day-to-day care of the child. If the main day-to-day carer is receiving Child Benefit for your daughter then you still have a legal responsibility to pay child maintenance. Under the child support law, the Child Support Agency (CSA) works out a child maintenance amount using the paying parents net weekly income. 15% is the correct liability amount to be paid for one child, however, there are allowances for if you have your child stay overnight (for a minimum of 52 nights a year).
If you'd like some more information about how the CSA works out child maintenance, visit www.Gov.uk. For information and support on family-based arrangements, call the Options team on 0800 988 0988.
We also have a web application that you may find useful, it offers help and support to separating families. You can find this at, http://www.dad.info/divorce-and-separation/sorting-out-separation.
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