Would you bring this up with child's other parent.

[bird900599]

So my child's dad was paying maintenance weekly which was fine as it covered the 52 weeks in a year. He then changed it to monthly but still gave me the same amount every 4 weeks so that works out he's paying 4 weeks money 12 times a year which works out to be 48 weeks paid so he isn't paying 4 weeks out of the year . If he calculated the proper amount it should work out to be monthly I.e 5 weeks months etc then this wouldn't be the case. Shall I bring it up or leave it?. I'm wondering if he realises this or genuinely doesn't. What would you do?

Our child is just a baby so this hasn't been a set up for years just the past few months.

Yes, I’d bring it up. If he wants to pay 4 weekly, then he does that - pays every 4 weeks on eg a Friday, and pays 13 times each year. Or he can calculate it out and pay monthly (essentially, the 52x weekly amount divided by 12) and pay that each month in elegant 1st of the month.

I’d mention it, yes. A lot of people work on four weeks to a month, so he’s probably just multiplied his weekly payment by 4. The right way to do it is to multiply it by 52 and divide by 12.

Obviously last line should read “pay each month on eg 1st if the month” - I doubt you care whether he pays elegantly or not

Similar here!

My ex used to pay with the csa. The csa would take out so much every week and I would get paid 4 weekly. When the csa changed over to the new system he wanted to try our own arrangement to avoid fees.

rather than paying 4 weekly he pays monthly (same date each month) therefore like you he misses 4 weeks of the year!!

It doesn’t seem much but I guess it is when you think it’s 4 weeks missed.

I would bring it up. It could be a genuine mistake or your ex might know he’s doing it. Or he could be like my ex and lacks any brain cells and probably doesn’t understand the concept 🤣 I’ve given up!

Thanks everyone, I will have a conversation with him about it. @Bee2828 yeah he seems to be exactly the same with things.

That happened to me, I didn't say anything but that's because I'm a wimp and feel stupidly awkward about rocking the boat. The proper thing to do is point it out though, it's your money.

That's never actually occurred to me. Ex pays on the same date each month. I might check how he's worked out the amount.

My ex tried that. Wouldn't accept he was short-changing me. Ended up getting a solicitors letter with the calculations written out in the simplest terms.

Just had my annual review, will see what next month brings...