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child maintenance

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happyendings1 · 12/09/2019 19:53

Trying to sort out child maintenance with (soon to be) ex husband.

We have 2 DC but XH has multiple children with multiple mothers!
(No, I did not know this when I married the lying cheating little sh*t and hence the reason we are separating)

How is CM calculated in these circumstances? I've read online that for 3 or more children its 19% of XH income.
So would this be 19% split equally between all the children?

For example (to make calculations easy) if 19% of XH income was £40 per week and there were 4 children, each child would receive £10.
Mother 1 and child 1 would receive £10 per week
Mother 2 and child 2 would receive £10 per week
Mother 3 (me) and children 3 and 4 would receive £10 each per week making a total of £20 per week.

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stucknoue · 12/09/2019 20:20

I believe so but it's probably a bit more complicated. Get good professional advice and get it deducted from his salary because I doubt he otherwise will pay

happyendings1 · 12/09/2019 20:29

Thank you!

Where would you recommend for professional advice? CMS seem hopeless! Obviously XH isn't going to pay for anything extra such as school uniforms, Christmas, Birthdays etc. I want to make sure the DC are getting what they are entitled to.

I'm still in shock TBH

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