Child Maintenance
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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.
- Cases
- 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.
- Cases
- 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…
- Cases
- 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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!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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- 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
- Appeals
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A Wife v A Husband [2022] EWFC 1546 December 2022
HHJ Vincent. Consent order provided for W to receive lump sum in instalments for purpose of housing herself and the children, and spousal and child periodical payments. W relocated and sought accelerated receipt. Further consent order provided for this, b…
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- Child Maintenance
- Conduct
- Costs
- Variation Applications
- Cohabitation of Recipient of Spousal Maintenance
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Child Maintenance Outside the Child Maintenance Service: Where Are We Now?
In the majority of cases child maintenance is determined exclusively by the formula prescribed by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). In summary it is a percentage of the paying parent’s income with deductions for overnight care. But there are some exceptions where the English family court may have the power to make orders in relation to child maintenance.
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!19/12/2022 12:02
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BK v (1) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2) LB [2022] UKUT 282 (AAC)27 October 2022
Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Rowland. Decision on F’s application to appeal the decision of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT). F appealed a child maintenance assessment on the basis that his gross income was lower than the figure used in the assessment.F sough…
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- Child Maintenance
- Appeals