Plans to increase the child maintenance payment charged to parents on unemployment benefit are ‘grossly unfair’, a charity has claimed.
The government plans to increase the flat rate charge from £5 to £7 per week, but no recognition of this charge is made in the benefits they receive.
The number of parents paying for their children through the Child Support Agency (CSA) has hit a record high, the government has claimed.
Four in four parents involved with the CSA now pay for their children voluntarily,
The ex-wife of Anger Management star Charlie Sheen has failed in her second attempt to have temporary custody of her children removed from Denise Richards.
Two stockbrokers based in Indiana have been barred from practising in the state because they owe thousands in unpaid child support.
Secretary of State Connie Lawson suspended the professional practice licences of Kenneth McCabe and Jeffrey Everaert earlier this week when it was discovered that both
Multinational security services company G4S has been appointed the official supplier of the new Child Maintenance Options service.
The Crawley-based company was awarded a five year, £18 million contract to run the service following a competitive tender.
A US man who scooped a huge lottery win earlier this week owes $29,000 in unpaid child support.
Forty-four year old Pedro Quezada collected $152 million in Trenton, New Jersey, on Tuesday, after discovering the previous day that he was the sole winner of that weekend’s
The former partner of a successful musician has failed in her bid for maintenance after their daughter moved to live with her father.
In N v C, the girl, now 12, had been living with her mother but went to live with her father
A Milwaukee father who has reportedly not made a single chid support payment for his two year daughter has been arrested after posting photos of himself posing with cash on social networking site Facebook.
Senators in the US state of Illinois have unanimously approved legislation that would allow a local man to cease paying child support for a boy he did not father.
Bradley Entrican from Paris, Illinois, has been paying support throughout the life of the boy, now
A successful footballer playing for a UK team has been ordered to help the mother of his child in Africa move into more secure accommodation.
The mother had returned to her home country after the end of her relationship with the
The Bombay High Court has ordered an Indian man to pay 500,000 rupees (5 lakh or £6000) to his 28 year old daughter, more than two decades after he divorced her mother.
The woman had appealed an earlier family court dismissal of her claim for financial help
Chester County Court has granted an appeal against a judgment that courts do not have the authority to order the repayment of overpaid maintenance unless a legal order is in place.
G v P concerned a divorced couple. In July 2005, they reached a settlement in which they
A fugitive Polish father who dug a secret tunnel under the floorboards of his home in Pruszków to escape the police was caught after sneezing during a raid on his home.
Darius Olewski was on the run from police after racking up tens of thousands of pounds
US actress and mathematician Danica McKellar has finalised her divorce from husband Mike Verta.
The 38 year-old filed for divorce in June last year, citing irreconcilable differences, and a court has now granted the divorce, ending their three year marriage, according to a report
Just under 80 per cent of the parents currently targeted by the Child Support Agency (CA) are paying maintenance, according to new figures.
Out of a total of 882,200 individual cases being handled by the agency in December last
Just how much child maintenance a non-resident parent should pay is an complex and emotive subject. Over the 20 years of its existence, the Child Support Agency (CSA) earned a reputation, amongst other things, for heavy-handed inflexibility in its pursuit of
A man accused of owing more than $1.2 million in backdated child support has been arrested in Los Angeles.
50 year-old Robert Sand had been deported from the Philippines, where he had been arrested last month. Prosecutors believe he had also been living in Thailand for a period.
Every month I appear on ITV’s This Morning, for a regular ‘Divorce Clinic’ in which I answer viewers’ questions live on air. One subject is always guaranteed to prompt a deluge of messages, tweets and phone
The Court of Appeal has dismissed a father’s appeal in a case in which the mother had applied for permission to relocate to the Republic of Ireland.
In Re O, the child lived with the mother. The father saw his child regularly but had no
Former US basketball star Dennis Rodman has been ordered to pay as much as $500,000 in backdated child support to his ex-wife.
Rodman was also found in contempt of court and sentenced to informal probation. He was
Unpaid child support payments in the US total $108 billion, according to new figures from the Office of Child Support Enforcement.
Almost 50 per cent of that money, or around $53 billion, is owed to the US taxpayer,
A former Brooklyn doctor who abandoned his wife and children nearly seven years ago has been arrested in Virginia.
Fifty-one year old Raiham Chowdhury was handcuffed as his plane landed at Washington Dulles International Airport
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