Family
Child maintenance payments can be arranged with your ex-partner or calculated by the Child Maintenance Service if you can't agree.
Children advice Divorce
Making a parenting plan while getting divorced can reduce disruption to your child’s life. Learn how to make an effective parenting plan with these five steps.
Making child maintenance arrangements with your ex-partner after you get divorced helps to support your children financially. With multiple options available, learn which way is best for you.
Parents separating and sharing custody can be a difficult time for a child. It’s important to make sure you communicate with them clearly, and listen carefully to their needs during this period.
Children advice
Getting custody of your child after a divorce need not be a zero-sum game. By compromising with your ex-partner, you can both continue to share responsibility for your child.
When parents split up, it’s common for their children to live for part of the time with each parent. This is often referred to as shared custody, although the modern term is ‘shared residence’.
Arranging contact with your children after a divorce is essential. How you come to this agreement will depend upon the state of your relationship with your ex-spouse, as well as with your children.
If and your partner are separated or divorced, they may try to prevent you from seeing or having contact with your child. There are steps you can take to prevent this.
When separating from or divorcing your partner, it will be important to decide where your child will live, to ensure their future wellbeing.
For many families the issue of parental responsibility may never even be considered to be an issue. However, in more complicated family setups it can become important to understand the nature of parental responsibility and how to apply for it.
