To ask how much child maintenance you receive

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Just that and has it increased to take the cost of living into consideration?

My parents split in 1980 in those days it was a court order and my dad paid £20 per month for each child and £20 for my mum. Ours was till we left education and my mums was until she remarried or cohabited, she has done neither and dad is still paying her the £20 a month 43 years later. She did mention at one point that she didn’t think he needed to do that anymore and dad said “I think you’ll find it’s the court order”

I've just discovered my ex is paying 30% of his salary into a pension, because he finally has to pay me a decent amount as his older kids have aged out. Years of pleading poverty and thousands and thousands a year squirrelled into a pension while refusing to buy her a pair of socks as the £100 a month he was giving me should cover everything.

Rinkly I remember having this with my ex husband! Yet again another loop hole! It's just wrong that a grown adult can put their future ahead of a child's here and now. If that makes sense.
Why are children not put first at all costs. Child maintenance should not be "voluntary" but it should be enforceable.

It's grotesque, @Justmeandme19. He is paying £800 a month into a pension purely out of spite, on a £30k salary, all whilst playing the victim. I'm so disgusted.

We really need a system that values our children more. They should be at the for front of it all.

The same reason resident parents alienate the kids and think it's acceptable.

The system doesn't punish bad behaviours enough. No real surprise in the age of No fault divorce with such a high divorce rate.

But I can’t imagine ever not wanting to see my son (and he has asd and can be incredibly hard work) so,it shouldn’t be a system thst ppl do because they will be punished they should do anyway. I speak as a child who parents divorced at 7 and we didn’t see my dad for about 4 years, can’t ever imagine doing this to my own son

Hahaha ha! No. He's paid me 150 a month for two kids and has done since we split up 6 years ago. Apparently I should be grateful, he's doing me a favour

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