So my friend has a son with his ex (H) and a baby with another ex(R) .
So he's been paying 250 pm to his H when him and R were together. Now he's split with R his H still wants 250 pm and R also wants 250 pm. Through csa the overall working out is 83 pw for both children so that's 41.50 pw to each parent. So that's 166 pm to each mum. On both claims he is down as only seeing the children 1 day a week but the contact is at least 1 day a week. (for example for the last 4 weeks he has seen H's son 3 over nights, 2 over nights, full week and then 2 over nights.) For both children it is like this. He will have H's child at least 3 days (2 overnight) then the rest of the week the child is with my friends parents. He's never questioned the payments and has payed on time every time.
So for H it also says he owes areers and no matter how many times he sends in the bank statements showing he's paid the areers never go down. So now on top of maintenance he's paying areers.
So my question is can he appeal the circumstances as H's child is never at hers he is either with dad or his parents? In their booklet it says they take into account how many nights and take that percentage off the maintenance but it's done nothing for the calculations.
He doesn't mind paying support but I feel its wrong amount especially if the child is never at home to have that money spent on them. Plus he's going skint having to pay maintenance to the mum then provide for the child 7 days a week (he buys everything for his parents house too)
With R its a family based agreement and they do a daily rate then each week work out how many days dad has the child and them does daily amount times the amount of days he doesn't have him. So it's a nicer fairer system that side.
TIA