Calculate your Child Maintenance on GOV.UK - How to use the Child Maintenance Online Calculator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- A step by step guide to using the GOV.UK Child Maintenance Calculator.
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One of the first things divorcing couples with children want to know is how much their child support payments will be. This is understandable, the primary concern of the resident parent, that is the parent who the children live with most of the time, is will they be able to afford to look after their children. Whereas the non-resident parent is usually concerned about how they will manage their finances overall because they are now likely to incur additional property costs.
The purpose of child maintenance is to provide support for a child’s everyday living costs. The non-resident parent must make payments to the resident parent, who is responsible for the child’s day-to-day care.
There are three ways to determine how much child support payments will be:
1. Decide informally with your ex-partner.
2. Hire solicitors to help you reach an agreement.
3. Have the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) calculate the amount.
Working out child support payments with your ex-partner is a practical method; consider using a mediation service if you are having difficulty communicating. However, this informal approach carries a level of uncertainty, as either party can revisit the amount at any time in the future.
Agreeing on child support payments using the help of solicitors will be costly but may be necessary if your finances are complicated. You can also ask the court to make the child maintenance payments legally binding. This approach might be useful if you anticipate becoming increasingly wealthy. The downside is that if your circumstances take a turn for the worst, you would still be legally required to pay the agreed amount.
How the CMS Calculates Child Support Payments
The Child Maintenance Service follows six steps to calculate the amount of child support you will pay. The amount is reviewed every year and can change based on changes in income or family circumstances. For clarity, the video is based on the non-resident partner going through the process.
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I ask about the reason for the high pay for my kid's, you explained it very clear to me, thank you for that.👍.
To bad that dad's have no control or a system to know if the money will be spend on them or not, because most men knows that the mother will spend the money for herself.
thank you
The CMS calculator is inaccurate. It is also misleading, as there is no seperate screen for inputting pension information, and most do not notice it asks you to deduct it from the income screen.
What are you on about?
@@EasyOnlineDivorce So the CMS calculator does not like 50:50, it is bias towards one person paying, when it should be zero each. It does not take into account special expenses, such as contact costs, boarding school, or prior debt. Your calculator is much better as it considers special expenses. I will steer people towards it, as it gives a fairer result.
There is a another issue concerning pensions. Although the calculator allows you to deduct pensions, most people do not notice that. I guess its because they are entering their income, and they miss the fact that it says enter the figure after pensions. This is particularly important for people that have private pensions. The CMS calculator should have seperate screen for pensions that takes into account both workplace and private pensions.
Using your example you entered a figure of 27K for income. Most people know their annual income. But they dont know it after pension deductions. For example, someone paying 3% into a pension should have entered £26190 for their annual income, if their gross pay was 27K. But most dont appreciate that. If your calculator was adjusted slightly to take into account pensions as a seperate cell, it would be brilliant.
Great content by the way.
Hello I cannot seem to see the excel calculator is this still available? thx
The amount of maintenance paid is based on the 'Taxable' amount earn, so does this mean if i earn £30,000 my taxable income is £17,500 so is this what should be entered as income?
Hi RF, no £30,000 is the amount that you pay tax on so that is the figure you enter. It’s your gross income.
@@EasyOnlineDivorce Thank you - the CMS site says taxable income, not gross taxable though?
@@rfland14 sorry to be clearer - the calculation starts with your income before income tax and NI but after employer or personal pension schemes. So it’s the £30k figure it’s based off
@@EasyOnlineDivorce Understood, thank you for your help.
@@rfland14 👍🏻
I can't seem to find the real man's divorce calculator in the link ?
How come? My outcome with the calculator is 284.80 but CMS say it is 310.34...exsplain this to me,thank you
hi, drop me an email at james@realmansdivorce.com and we can find out why the CMS figures are different
@@EasyOnlineDivorce hi I have send it already to you.hopefully you can explain that to me,how this is possible.
The max child maintenance gross weekly is £3000 so your payments is £1257 a month to the other parent does it really take £1250 to provide for one child’s food clothing school meals etc...
Also furloughed people on 80% pay still have to pay the full amount even though there on 20% less a month pay it’s just unrealistic model
If you have to pay £1250 a month, then it’s likely that your family enjoyed a certain level of lifestyle. The maintenance payment reflects this to cover the cost of running a home with children in it etc. Agreed that it’s tough for people on 80% of their salary but the government is already creaking under the strain nevermind having to review millions of maintenance payments.
Corrupt organisation. It should be your net income .