Child Maintenance Service ‘endangers domestic abuse victims’
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) puts survivors of domestic abuse at risk, two charities have claimed. Launched in 2012, the CMS was designed to replace the Child Support Agency. The idea is for...
View ArticleMillions owed to single parents in child maintenance
Single parents in the UK are owed millions of pounds in child maintenance, a new study suggests. Campaign charity Gingerbread claims that as much as £6 million is owed to such parents in West...
View ArticleInternal child abduction, child support and more
A week (or so) in family law I’m going to begin with a case that was actually decided last week, but I failed to mention here in my weekly review last Friday. I did, however, mention it here in this...
View ArticleGovernment promises are ‘not enough’ for single parents
The promises made by the government in this week’s Autumn Statement are not enough to help struggling families, a charity has claimed. Single parent organisation Gingerbread has said that Chancellor of...
View ArticleFamily law in 2016: the bad bits
It is traditional at this time of year to write a review of all that has gone on over the previous twelve months. On this occasion I thought I would try something a little different from the usual...
View ArticleChild maintenance backlog exceeds £3.8 billion
The amount of uncollected child maintenance in Britain now exceeds £3.8 billion, the BBC has claimed. The figure, highlighted on Victoria Derbyshire show, is based on collated government statistics and...
View ArticleLoopholes ‘depriving single parents of child support’
‘Loopholes’ mean too many absent parents are not paying their dues, single parent charity Gingerbread has claimed. In a new report entitled Children Deserve More, Gingerbread insist that recent reforms...
View ArticleIt is no surprise that parents are getting away with child maintenance avoidance
On Monday the single parent charity Gingerbread published a report looking into the issue of child maintenance avoidance. It paints a pretty damning picture of just how easy it is for some paying...
View ArticleWhy do some fathers think they shouldn’t pay child maintenance?
The four billion pound question* Last week the single parent charity Gingerbread published a report in which it described how many parents avoided their liability for child maintenance, due to...
View ArticleGot money? Avoid child support by doing away with your income!
It may seem paradoxical, but you can save money by doing away with your income. How is this possible? Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of child support maintenance. I’ve written here previously...
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