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title="Visit our TikTok profile"]Sometimes a father needs to prove or disprove paternity in a court case regarding contact with or maintenance of with a child. Although the court cannot force someone to provide…
Enforcing maintenance from someone aboad
The Child Maintenance Service only deals with child maintenance for parents living in the UK (or working aborad for a few UK agencies). See this link for information on how…
What are Child Maintenance payments supposed to cover?
On the child maintenance front, payments are made based on an overall assessment of how much needs to be contributed by the paying parent, rather than for specific purposes. The…
How does the Child Maintenance Service decide on equal shared care?
When both parents are looking after their children for equal amounts of time neither of them should be assessed by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to pay maintenance. Equal care…
As a ‘non-resident parent’ can I volunteer to be a parent helper at my child’s school for school trips etc outwith my court ordered contact time?
Yes. Schools get this wrong sometimes. Both parents retain full parental responsibilities and rights. An order specifying residence and contact does not eliminate either from carrying out responsibilities or exercising…
Attending a Child Welfare Hearing
Parents who are involved in a family court case should always be allowed to attend Child Welfare Hearings unless the Sheriff has decided that this should not happen. Ordinary Cause…