Child Maintenance

Promises Unkept: Unpaid Child Maintenance and the Price of Inaction

Promises Unkept: Unpaid Child Maintenance and the Price of Inaction

Unpaid child maintenance remains one of the most persistent and under-addressed financial injustices affecting separated families in England and Wales. The failures of the CMS destabilise the very integrity of financial provision for children post-separation.

Re A Child (Schedule 1, 1989 Act; Variation) [2025] EWHC 1254 (Fam)

McKendrick J. Final Hearing concerning cross-Schedule 1 and specific issue applications brought by both parties. The High Court dismissed all but the respondent father’s application to release his intermediary from undertakings.

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v LR & Anor [2025] EWFC 271 (B)

DJ Guirguis. Exercising the power contained in s 32 of the Child Support Act 1991, the court set aside a transfer of property and injuncted the respondents from further dispositions to defeat child maintenance claims.

Re: H (A Child) (Appeal: Child Maintenance)

Henke J. A failed appeal by the father against the extension of the duration of a child maintenance order beyond the age of eighteen years.

OS v DT [2025] EWFC 156

HHJ Hess. Financial remedies final hearing heard by HHJ Hess involving total assets over £9m, and disputes concerning non-matrimonial property including post-separation income, and child periodical payments where the parties had equal shared care of the children.

W v X [2025] EWHC 1696 (Fam)

Schedule 1 'big money' case before Mr Justin Warshaw KC (sitting as a deputy High Court judge) concerning the financial provision of C.

JP v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and LH [2025] UKUT 162

Judgment date: 07 March 2025 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukut/aac/2025/162 Upper Tribunal Judge Citron. Application for a variation to a child support maintenance calculation under regs 69 or 69A of the Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012. Interpretation of s 8(6) CSA 1991. Error of