Can I earn money from my son modelling?

[Littleeggycustard]

I have a 14 month old son who has just been signed up to a good modelling agency in London. I have read that they can only pay money into a bank account in the child’s name - does that mean that I can’t access any of it?
My son and I live at my Mum and Dads and I want to save money so that we can move out. I would like to use some of his modelling money for this, but is there any way I can access it?
Thanks :)

That’s awful. Did he ever give it back? I’m guessing not as he sounds like a piece of work.

I'm sorry but it is forcing your child to do it. He's 14 months old and can't consent to it. Therefore it's forcing.

Also, if you don't have a job because you can't afford childcare, how would you afford rent on a property of your own?

My son did modelling when he was young and yes I used the money to enhance his life so rather that get evicted when I lost my job it got used to pay the mortgage. Then when I was back in work it got used for his school trips, clothes, holidays etc. he was also the only boy at college driving a BMW. He’s 33 now and said how I managed it was completely fair as it gave him a great childhood and also an inheritance.

It's his money and you should protect it for him. My late father paid small but regular amounts into funds for my children, to be accessed as needed by or for them. The intention was that each child should have a little nest-egg for when they got married, for further education etc.

My ex husband and I had access to the account but I trusted him and busy with the kids so didn't monitor it myself.
When eldest daughter asked for her money to help with her wedding plans, it emerged that all the money had gone. My husband said he'd taken it to pay for family expenses, for which she'd benefited.

Laws are amended.

OP will need to do her research on this because legally it’s would be her son’s money, and I’m not sure she would have access to it, or access without strict oversight. It depends on the bylaws of her local council (that she would need to apply for a child
performance license from).

Maybe it’s changed but I opened him a account but I was the guardian of it.

Give over, it hasn’t ‘come to’ anything. There have always been child actors/models. If done properly there’s nothing inherently wrong with it.

There's something very wrong if the adult spends the child's wages, especially when the child had no choice in earning them.

You seem to have missed the bit in my very short post where I said ‘if done properly’. It’s an overreaction to call it pimping based simply on what the OP said in her original post.

one of my dc’s goes to school with a child star - they have been acting/performing music for the past 5 years or so. I’ve noticed that both of the parents have now resigned from their jobs & they’ve purchased expensive new cars etc. it’s a bad look. So much pressure on the child - who is effectively supporting the whole family

Why not just work, if you are low income you get help with childcare from uc

You can legitimately use money he earns for this for him eg activities, clothing

It sounds like you know this family very much at arm’s length. I would question whether you really know what’s going on. I doubt, for example, you know the circumstances and terms on which they left their employment. You speak as if you know they don’t intend to work again in the near future. Ask yourself, do you really know that?

You speak as if you know they don’t intend to work again in the near future. Ask yourself, do you really know that?

Well you sound rather defensive to me, so we can’t anticipate how others will interpret what we post. In this case, the child star dc complains to my child regularly about their situation- about not being able to socialise normally, about the pressure on them etc. They also told my dc that their parents weren’t working anymore and my dc felt that they were worried about it.

This all confirms what I’m getting at; you don’t know. It’s all second hand hearsay coming through two children. You don’t know whether they are intending to rely on the child’s earnings, as your post accused them of, or whether something else is going on eg looking for other work, have another source of income you don’t know about.

I’m not defensive. Odd word to choose. I’m just calling out assumptions.

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,,well written and I totally agree with you vv