Child Support

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

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/b/2025/271?query=2025+ewfc+271+%28B%29

A Mother v A Father (Re Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989) [2024] EWFC 63

Judgment date: 19 February 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/63.html HHJ Vincent. Schedule 1 matter determined in light of the child’s needs and the strict remit of Schedule 1, notwithstanding the significant disparity between the parents’ respective economic positions and standards of living.

SP v QR [2024] EWFC 57 (B)

Judgment date: 12 March 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2024/57.html HHJ Hess. Schedule 1 application with a ‘more modest’ asset base regarding residence in a property subject to a mortgage and ‘top-up’ maintenance for a disabled child. Background The applicant mother was 37 years

C v D (No 2) (2007 Hague Convention) [2024] EWFC 36

Judgment date: 27 February 2024 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2024/36 MacDonald J underlines the limited circumstances in which the registration of a maintenance order pursuant to the Hague Convention 2007 may be appealed successfully. The judgment marks the latest, and hopefully final, saga in an epic of

Y v Z [2024] EWFC 4

Judgment date: 16 January 2024 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2024/4.html Peel J’s determination of M’s Schedule 1 application against F, who is a member of a Middle Eastern royal family. M’s application for financial provision under Schedule 1 of the Children

Renée v Galbraith-Marten [2023] EWFC 141

Judgment date: 22 August 2023 https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/141 Cobb J. Effect of James v Seymour [2023] EWHC 844 (Fam) – summary here – on top-up child maintenance previously agreed in Sch 1 proceedings. A long-running case, in which there is are previous reported judgments at [2016] EWHC

DT v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (CSM) [2023] UKUT 175 (AAC)

Judgment date: 17 July 2023 https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKUT/AAC/2023/175.html Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Rowland. Appeal against decision of First-tier Tribunal regarding the correct income figure upon which to base a Child Maintenance calculation. Appeal allowed. Legal framework * Decisions under the ‘2012 scheme’ are