Xenia that does already exist, and doesn't work for CMS! The problem is that while there is a reasonable, and responsible majority of parents, of either gender, who do pay, there is also a significant minority of people like Eboatneezer, who hide their assets and then blame the fact that they choose not to pay child maintenance to the mother of their children for the care of their children on the mother of their children. The number of paying parents who just don't pay is around 38%, and the amount of CMS arrears owed is over £4 billion and, those who don't pay? 92% are fathers.... As a result there are a lot of children who go without. My ex was very keen to see a lot of his children until he got his "nil" CMS assessment - he had a financial incentive to spend time with them, because the more time he spent with them the less CM he paid... Without that financial motivation to see the children he has cut it down hugely, the outcome is I have more childcare responsibilities, less money, and less time to work. The CMS are useless, and mens groups like F4J, FNF and VOTC have their own little group chats on how to avoid paying, like Boat they endlessly appeal decisions and while they are supposed to pay until the appeal is decided, they don't. Where abuse exists financial abuse also exists, and the abusive man will use financial abuse with the help of the courts and the CMS. Even among lawyers and Judges there's a ridiculous tendency to believe the lie that women accuse falsely for financial gain - despite this flying in the face of all the evidence and statistics. I think Mostyn's view that each phase of divorce in family law should be subject to a cap is justified, that the Courts should be able to establish Child Maintenance at the time of divorce if either couple wants that and that this should remain in place subject to an appeal through court, unless both parties agree to go through the CMS, at the moment court can set Child Maintenance, but the paying parent can then appeal that through the CMS after one year, and the minute the CMS become involved maintenance stops and the paying parent just launches endless appeals. This would also ease the load for the CMS to concentrate on the more needy. I'm working with a group at the moment, by the way, on a legal challenge by adult children of abusive men who have been forced into contact, and sometimes residency with their abusive fathers, despite clear evidence of abuse, and despite these young adults voicing repeatedly their desire to stay with the non abusive parent, and not see the abusive parent. How the courts and the Fathers groups have managed to flip the narrative so the child is not believed and is forced into contact and residency with a dangerous and damaging parent while the protective parent is accused of PAS, and penalised beggars belief. Sorry Xenia, but there is something approaching a collective blindness and insanity in the legal profession that is perpetuating damaging and deeply inequitable outcomes in the family courts. The narrowness of the social and racial background of Judges and Solicitors is a problem, and the tendency for the legal profession to circle wagons and defend their own interests is shocking.