Family Law Specialists Edinburgh, Glasgow
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When is a child a qualifying child and so within the jurisdiction of the Child Maintenance Service?
It can come as a surprise to some people that when the Child Support Agency/Child Maintenance Service tries to enforce their calculation against an individual through the court, then no-one – not even the sheriff – is allowed to challenge the accuracy of the maintenance calculation, despite the long history of child support calculations being inaccurate.
Shared care and Child Support and Maintenance: It is not generally realised that there are child support implications of an equal shared care regime.
One of the less well known provisions of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Bill is an increase in the level of aliment that can be claimed under the new Simple Procedure.
