Child Support
Contact and CSA
From 7th January 2008: non-resident parents will be given a 24% reduction of their proportion of the calculated costs of children (under the new formula) if they have 14%+ care of their children – this equates to one night per week. So we are expecting a steep increase in fathers seeking contact and we are aware of this beginning to happen – purely based on their desire to reduce their child support liability.
More divorced dads caring for kids
Divorced dads are increasingly becoming the primary carers of their children: in the first six months of this year, the number of fathers receiving child support payments from their former wives has doubled.Child Support Agency assistant general manager David Mole said new agency figures revealed separated fathers now played a much greater role in the lives of their children.More than 21 per cent of cases registered with the agency in the first six months of this year had a male receiving child support, double the rate across the total of all CSA cases. Increasingly, parents paying child support also have more contact with their children.
Dividend For Divorced Men
DIVORCE is the best way for a man to improve his financial standing, say researchers. Separated women, especially mothers, usually end up much worse off after a split. But a European study shows that men who leave their wives are four times more likely to become richer than those who remain married. Even fathers fare better because the true cost of bringing up children usually tops what they may have to pay in maintenance contributions.
Child support: pay up or lose welfare
PARENTS who fail to make child support payments will have the amount docked
from government benefits as part of tough new compliance rules.
From July 1 all parents paying or receiving child support will have their
payments adjusted according to a formula based on the cost of raising
children.
OTHER SUBJECT HEADINGS:
Fatherlessness
Unacceptable Risk
Shared Parenting
Child Support
Child Development
Contravention