Child Maintenance
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Dickson v Rennie: Right or Wrong
Can the court determine it has jurisdiction to order child maintenance even when there isn't a maximum CMS assessment in force?
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- Jurisdiction
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!04/12/2023 09:22
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Child Maintenance in Cases of Equal Shared Care
The situation: two parents share childcare seemingly equally but there is a significant income imbalance. The issue: how is child maintenance determined? Does the Child Maintenance Service have jurisdiction? Does the Family Court have jurisdiction? Do neither?
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!21/11/2023 07:00
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Renée v Galbraith-Marten [2023] EWFC 14122 August 2023
Cobb J. Effect of James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam).
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- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Child Support
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AB v CD [2022] EWFC 19816 September 2022
HHJ Shelton. Hearing on 14–15 July 2022. Cross-applications to vary global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance order.
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- Global Maintenance Orders
- Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Needs
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AB v CD [2023] EWFC 10318 May 2023
HHJ Shelton. Hearing on 10 February 2023. Cross-applications to vary global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance order.
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- Global Maintenance Orders
- Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Needs
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AB v CD [2022] EWFC 1975 January 2022
HHJ Shelton. Cross applications to vary a global periodical payment order for a child aged 19 who is severely disabled and a spousal maintenance. The global order at the time of this judgment was £1,250pcm (£1,249 child and £1pm spousal).Th…
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- Global Maintenance Orders
- Child Periodical Payments For Over 18s
- Spousal Maintenance (Quantum)
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Needs
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James v Seymour: The Calculator
As helpfully summarised by Calum Smith on the FRJ website Mostyn J’s judgment in James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam) 675 included a renewed attempt to tackle how Child Maintenance should be calculated, effectively refining the methodology first se…
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- Child Maintenance
!29/05/2023 08:00
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Child Maintenance Top-Ups – an Update Following James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam)
The quantum of child maintenance is an area of considerable contention, particularly in the context that there are now around 629,000 taxpayers earning more than £150,000. This is a 2.3 times increase since the statutory ceiling was introduced some 10 years ago.
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- Child Maintenance
- Top-Ups
!06/05/2023 15:27
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James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam)19 April 2023
Mostyn J. An appeal concerning the correct approach to the calculation of child maintenance liability in which Mostyn J adds to the ever-expanding repository of family law acronyms.
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- Publicity and Confidentiality
- Child Maintenance
- Variation Applications
- Children Act 1989 Schedule 1 Applications
- Child Support
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PP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and SP [2022] UKUT 286 (AAC)1 November 2022
Upper Tribunal Judge Wikeley. Decision on F’s appeal.A reconsideration of a re-assessment of F’s child maintenance liability resulted in FTT ruling (in the absence of both parties): (1) that F’s unearned income was £34,191; (2) that it was just and equita…
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- Child Maintenance
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