Child Support Defined...
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Court Procedures for Obtaining Child Support
The way in which child support is assessed, calculated, collected and distributed to parents with care varies around the world.
In the UK...
Disputes over Paternity
A parent is a person who is legally recognised as being the mother or father of a child. A person can be a parent for various reasons: biologically, or because they...
Distribution and Payment: What is Involved?
The amount of child support a parent with care is likely to receive in periodic payments from a non resident parent is calculated according to...
Duration of Child Support Orders
Child support begins when a couple separate or divorce, and one parent lives away from their child or children. The child will generally live with the primary carer,...
Income: Protected, Assessable and Exempt
Although there have been reforms relating to the way in which child support payments are calculated, any child support payments that were...
Non-Payment and Visitation / Penalties
When a non-resident parent is not paying maintenance towards his or her children it can be very tempting to withhold contact with the child as a...
The Use of Child Support Payments
It is internationally recognised that parents have a responsibility to support their child, or children. Part of this responsibility means providing financial...
Who Can Apply for Child Support?
It isn’t just biological parents that have the right to apply for child maintenance payments. Any person who is ‘with care’ is entitled to apply to the Child Support...
