Would you /do you get child maintenance in this circumstance ?

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50:50 custody
parent A - earns 50k
parent B - earns 69k

would there be child maintenance or no? Anyone similar? Posting here for traffic.

No one?😅

Unlikely. With 50/50 child maintenance is normally only payable if one partner is a high earner. Neither of those salaries would be in that bracket.

No, you have 50/50 custody.
Both parents are doing their half the the child raising. Why should parent B do extra?

I don't think so with 50:50 - though it depends if one parent takes on the lions share of costs ie who pays for clubs or school uniform? Or is it all split equally?

No, assuming both parents pay for whatever the child needs during their time with them.

Child Benefit should also potentially be split 50:50.

I'm in this situation, neither of us pay the other maintenance

They are virtually identical salaries and exactly identical childcare arrangements. No one gets anything.

Why are people so fucking grabby.

I assume you have to sort this out yourselves, rather than two claims for 50/50?

The CMS calculator would give you a more accurate answer than Mumsnet and be quicker too

I think there should be no maintenance. But seriously there is a 19k difference, that is not virtually identical!

No maintenance as such but need to agree how costs are split on things like uniform shoes clubs etc

No the cms calculator doesn’t work for 50:50. It’s says some is due to whichever party puts their details on.

on this occasion mn is right. Nothing due

They pretty much are.

It's not one person on £22k and the other on £450k is it. It's bugger all difference to try and claim the poor relative stance.

I think there should be no maintenance. But seriously there is a 19k difference, that is not virtually identical!

But surely it’s not a case of ‘no maintenance with 50/50 unless both parties have identical salaries’?

You are living a very privileged life if you think 19k is nothing. That doesn’t change no maintenance being due, but it is not a virtually identical salary.

Not even sure what you are getting at. No maintenance is due on their salaries with 50:50 care, that’s just factual.

19k is not virtually nothing, that’s also factual.

Someone on £50k is living virtually the identical standard as someone on £69k.

It's not being privileged to know that.

The lower earner may be able to get a small amount from the higher earner. The only way to check properly would to be to contact CMS and get the ball rolling.

However you need to decide if a decent coparenting arrangement is worth a few quid a month.

Thats pretty much a naff all difference in income. Maintenance should be nonexistent for either party.

The lower earner may be able to get a small amount from the higher earner. The only way to check properly would to be to contact CMS and get the ball rolling.

But what sort of income difference do you need to have, for the higher earner to be required to pay maintenance in a 50/50?

But what sort of income difference do you need to have, for the higher earner to be required to pay maintenance in a 50/50?

Usually it's with the higher earning sums beyond CMS's cap.

I've known of it happen in less than 19k of a difference.

It wasn't a lot, and it destroyed their coparenting arrangement though.

The only way to know for sure is contact CMS.

My friend has 50/50 custody however she does receive maintenance as because she sacrificed her career for their children, her husband was able to become a high earner, as he never had to worry about childcare etc. She does work but has a minimum wage jo so the dad does pay through cms. Not at all a money grab. She gave up her job to look after the children due to childcare costs, and is therefore 9 years later, starting out as a single parent with very little experience. Had she not gave up her job to look after their children she would be in a much financial.position to provide for her kids

So she's not on £50k then.

Kind of missing the point there...