Large Difference in Earnings/Income

I am the partner of the Mother who is looking for solutions to this problem. If Father did seek CSA from Mother it would be more to spite the Mother (for divorcing him) and not for the financial benefit of the child.


Surely a better system would be:-

Child needs X amount of money per month to be supported

1 day = £ Y

Then go

X - (Y*days that person who not claiming CSA has child) = Z

Z is the shortfall

Then proportionally divide the money needed from both parents based on net earnings, so if the parent who earns more has the child more then they would pay less.
So this would basically be like an Income based job seekers "allowance". Seems a much fairer system to me and easy to put into an online calculator.

The law see's it as both parents make a child 50/50 therefore both parties pay for a child 50/50.

If one parties income is bigger it's not relevant as it starts with a percentage rather than a set figure only for the NRP.

However as you say that CB is only £51 a month rather than £89 I'm presuming your partner has other children living with her?

The actual final CSA calculation would be slightly more involved (if it even went ahead) than just a straigh percentage of her income.

It takes into account the children that are still living with her, excludes certain benefits that she received for those children and then it makes a deduction for everynight the child says with her during the week.

So the approximate you've worked out is probably not the end result just a very rough guess.

The total amount of benefits for the child is the governments and the other parents payment for the upkeep of that child and is for the childs share of rent, bills, food, clothing etc and should follow the child.

If it had been a father having to give the child go and live with his ex wife then I'm going to take a wild guess and say I doubt this conversation would even take place as it would be natuarally expected that both parents should contribute to thats childs upkeep.

Is the child actually going to go and live with her father? Have a compromise not been reached by some extra time instead or a trial period to see if she even wants to go and live there full time?

If it's definately going ahead why not try and contact him in a reasonable calm manner and put together a proposal for a private arrangement instead?

T

hi, the father can claim regardless of your income. his maintenenace calculation currently allows for a shared care calculation of 3.5 nights shared care plus a child benefit abatement deduction ( assuming you recieved all of the child benefit) shared care repersents a 7th of net income for every night the child stays with the father.