Unmarried partners still missing bereavement payments – BBC News
‘Means-tested payments of up to £10,000 are made to parents whose husband, wife or civil partner has died.’
BBC News, 3rd March 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: child support
Breakdown cover – Family Law
‘David Burrows provides a rundown of child support appeals to the First-tier Tribunal & Upper Tribunal.’
Family Law, 13th November 2019
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
Funding Freshers – who pays for an older child’s university tuition fees on divorce? – Family Law
‘This month thousands of people up and down the country found out whether they had done enough to get into their university of choice. After a long, hard slog involving many sacrificed weekends and evenings, Freshers’ Week will no doubt provide some much needed light relief before it’s time to do it all over again over the next three to four years.’
Family Law, 28th August 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
Child Support Update – Family Law Week
‘Jody Atkinson TEP, barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol, takes stock of the developments in child support law and practice and considers the implications for parents.’
Family Law Week, 1st March 2018
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Jurisdiction and quantum of global maintenance order (AB v CD) – Family Law
‘Family analysis: Did the court, in deciding on financial provision, have jurisdiction to make a global maintenance order? Liz Cowell, partner at McAlister Family Law, looks at the issues of ‘global’ and ‘Segal’ orders in the recent case of AB v CD [2017] EWHC 3164 (Fam), [2017] All ER (D) 50 (Dec).’
Family Law, 5th January 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
Can the court order global maintenance? – Family Law
‘A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the Thatcher Government fixed its sights on child maintenance. In January 1990, in what was to be her last year in office, Mrs Thatcher (as she then was) spoke about the scandal that ‘…nearly four out of five lone mothers claiming income support received no maintenance from the fathers. No father should be able to escape from his responsibility and that is why the Government is looking at ways of strengthening the system for… making the arrangements for recovering maintenance more effective’ (National Children’s Homes Memorial Lecture, 17 January 1990).’
Family Law, 14th December 2017
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
Financial claims for children following parental separation: child maintenance and Schedule 1 – Family Law
‘In the recent case of Green v Adams [2017] EWFC 24 Mr Justice Mostyn discussed the constraints of child support and the perceived shortcomings in the latest child maintenance regime (introduced by the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008).’
Family Law, 3rd Niovember 2017
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
Child support legal loophole is closed – The Guardian
‘Parents will no longer be able to use a legal loophole to dodge paying child maintenance under new rules to be rolled out within months.’
The Guardian, 29th October 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
Senior judge: Fathers with valuable homes should pay more child support – Daily Telegraph
‘Estranged fathers with expensive homes should be forced to pay more towards the upbringing of their children, one of Britain’s most senior family judges has said.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th August 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Watchdog finds £3bn in child support arrears may never be collected – The Guardian
‘At least £3bn in child maintenance payments ordered by the former Child Support Agency (CSA) may never be paid, the Whitehall spending watchdog has said.’
The Guardian, 28th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
iPhone evidence ‘could be more effective than court hearing’ – Law Society’s Gazette
‘Resolving neighbour disputes using iPhone evidence and a video hearing might be more effective than the parties travelling several miles to court, a senior government official has said, outlining significant developments to modernise the justice system.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st July 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Finance & Divorce Update December 2015 – Family Law Week
‘Edward Heaton, Principal Associate and Jane Booth, Associate, both of Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the news and case law relating to financial remedies and divorce during November 2015.’
Family Law Week, 6th December 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Well-known’ footballer wins legal battle to have £60k-a-year child maintenance halved – Daily Telegraph
‘Unnamed player in his early 30s in High Court victory as judge cuts total maintenance he must pay to support children aged 10 and five to £30k.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th October 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Father killed himself after being asked for £11,000 child support, inquest told – The Guardian
‘A father hanged himself after receiving letters from the Child Support Agency demanding £11,000 in backdated maintenance payments for his son, an inquest has heard.’
The Guardian, 4th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man wins £39k over IVF baby deceit – BBC News
‘A woman who conned her former husband into believing he was the father of her IVF baby has been ordered to pay £39,000 in damages at the High Court.’
BBC News, 20th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.uk
Schedule 1 – Child Maintenance – Tanfield Chambers
‘S 8 of the Child Support Act 1991 (CSA 1991) circumscribes the role of the courts in deciding child maintenance. This act trumps the provisions in the MCA 1973 and Children Act 1989 s 15 / Schedule l save in certain circumstances (e.g. where an existing maintenance order has been made less than one year earlier – s 4 (10) (aa) CSA 1991). The combined effect of s10 CSA 1991 and § 3 (1) of the Child Support (Maintenance Arrangements and Jurisdiction) Regulations 1992 (SI 1992/2645) is that from the effective date of a maintenance calculation made pursuant to CSA 1991, any existing court order ceases to have effect.’
Tanfield Chambers, 20th February 2015
Source: www.tanfieldchambers.co.uk
Finance & Divorce Update – Family Law Week
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor of Mills & Reeve LLP analyses the financial remedies and divorce news and cases from January 2015.’
Family Law Week, 19th February 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Schedule 1 to The Children Act 1989: Not Just for Wags – Family Law Week
‘Anita Mehta, barrister of Crown Office Row, Brighton, argues that Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 applications should not be regarded as the domain of footballers’ girlfriends or the uber-wealthy but as a powerful tool for meeting children’s needs in a wide variety of cases.’
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Family Law Week, 6th February 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Finance & Divorce Update – Family Law Week
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor of Mills & Reeve LLP analyses the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published by Family Law Week during September.’
Family Law Week, 5th October 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Child Support – What Is Going On? – Family Law Week
‘Jody Atkinson TEP, barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol, considers the ongoing changes to the Child Support Act system.’
Family Law Week, 12th March 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
