Help and Advice
A Brief Guide To Parental Alienation
Parental alienation is a topic that has been in the press regularly over the last few years. Often people believe that their child expressing any reluctance to attend at contact with them must be as a result of parental alienation. However, this is not often the case. Parental alienation is rare and highly damaging to children.
How The New 'No-Fault Divorce' Will Help Ease Emotional Strain
Yesterday saw the announcement in the news of a “No-Fault Divorce”.
This must be welcome news to many couples who have simply drifted apart to the point where their marriage has broken down, but where neither want to cite allegations of unreasonable behaviour against the other.
Do I still need to pay child maintenance if my children spend 50% of their time in my care?
Even if your children share their time equally between you and your ex-partner, you may still be liable to pay or receive child maintenance.
The Child Maintenance Service calculate the sum to be paid between parents by firstly considering who is the party to receive maintenance. Usually, the paying parent is the parent who does not have the day-to-day care of the children. If however, the parties equally share the care of their children, they will look at which parent is registered with the HMRC to receive Child Benefit. The parent not registered to receive this would be deemed as the paying parent.
