Hill Dickinson’s family team can advise on the full range of child support and spousal maintenance issues including:
- Calculation of child support and spousal maintenance
- The options of voluntary arrangements, Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) assessment or court order for child support
- Applications for top-up child support maintenance, Schedule 1 Children Act claims and applications for school fee orders
- Advice on court and CMEC jurisdiction issues and representation in tribunal and court proceedings
- The interplay between child and spousal maintenance and the impact of re-marriage or cohabitation on spousal maintenance
- Applications to vary or terminate spousal maintenance claims, including applications to capitalise maintenance
Examples of recent work include:
- Representation of a property developer in CSA tribunal proceedings in which CSA jurisdiction was disputed
- Representation of a party in a top-up maintenance application, school fees application and application for the court to determine whether the child should be privately educated
- Representation of a husband on an
application brought by his wife to capitalise spousal maintenance
payments in circumstances where, on the husband’s case, the wife
was in a cohabiting relationship
The family
department "focuses on high to mid-range ancillary relief, and
handles referrals from the firm's large corporate department".
