School uniform

I think it would be fair for each parent to pay the same percentage towards costs as their percentage of care. I have my children alternate weeks and pay half of all school costs, swimming lessons etc.

I would totally agree its strange how our exs think.I don''t believe a word that comes out of my exs mouth now as he recently did the trip thing to me too!.
I think they think what they pay in CM covers it all but it sure don''t in my case as im sure it is in your too.
My ex has refuses to give our son a hot meal before returning him on a sunday because he claims its harder to cook 2 meals then 1 lol...How could I possibly believe anything when he says things like that.
Keep strong Driven and try and let it not get to you xx

I think this is what can happen when divorces aren''t amicable and there''s lots of court involvement.

I''m not saying it''s right, it just seems the way it goes.

I agree with Justaparent and along the lines of Strummer, in an ideal world both parents would contribute to the children''s costs in proportion to their incomes, but the issue gets clouded when CM and CB and tax credits have to be taken into account. The argument from the NRP is that they pay CM and don''t get any of the other benefits that go with the children. On the PWC side they are often lower paid (not in all cases) and not in a financially good position.

LB

Hi

There is no point in asking my ex for any more than child maintenance. He cannot make a decision by himself and even had to ask his sister if it was fair that I was asking for money from him for my son''s school books. I did get some money from him, but that''s because his sister influenced that.

Anyway it means I will have to communicate with him and seeing as he won''t speak to me even over the phone, there is no point in asking. I feel like I am grovelling and I won''t do that