Calculating child maintenance payments

[makeminemango]

I am in the process of setting up child maintenance payments from my ex. He has the kids 5 nights a fortnight. Okay, so that would be 2.5 hours a week. But he is also counting the school holidays which we will share 50:50. When this is taken into account across a year it bumps up the days to 3 and means I get abut £110 less per month. How is it calculated? He is a mean bast*rd who will do what he can to get out of paying. I have finally got him out of the house three years after telling him the marriage was over. At present I am trying to work it out between us but my gut feelings tells me to hand it over to the CSA as he is a very difficult person, very controlling. So- should holidays be taken into account? Thanks for your thoughts

Well he can't double count, no.

But how many actual nights a year are the children with him? That's what the CMS need to know.

As linerunner says, it's number of nights so it includes term time and holidays.

Yes holidays are taken into account so if he has them for say 5/14 for 42 weeks of the year that would be 105 nights then the other 10 weeks he has them 7/14 that would be 35 nights giving a total of 140 nights a year. it is the total number of nights a year that count not the normal weekly amount

Many thanks!

Glad that was helpful.

There's a 'nights' calculator on the CSA/CMS website if I remember correctly.