Calculating Maintenance

[kiwinat]

We have a private arrangement with DH's xW which we pay x amt of maintenance each month and each year goes up by CPI.

Every few months she makes noises about childcare arrangements and starts leading the conversation toward finance which is getting rather annoying as we pay a fair amount in keeping with the lifestyle they had before their divorce. (she is also remarried)

My question is what income would be used to work out the maintenance if going through CSA? My DH is self-employed and earns a small salary and the rest is in dividends. Is only the salary accounted in the calculation or dividends as well?

Thanks in advance.

Hi, you could try this HTH

Thanks, have tried that, but don't know whether to use just the salary or salary + dividends as income.

Does anyone have any advice or info on this case scenario: ex-P does not work and lives off his W who earns quite a good wage. They live overseas. Myself and P also live overseas and are expecting our own child soon. Ex-P currently pays GBP85 per month. They have seen child once in the last year, and we got them to pay the air fare which was about GBP300. Apart from that, and gifts/clothes etc occasionally, they do not contribute towards his upkeep.

Apart from the awful truth that any money I demand will actually have to come from his W, does anyone know how the law stands a) bearing in mind the fcat that we all live overseas, even though we are all UK citizens, and b) the fact that he is a SAH lazy git living off his w?