Child Maintenance Calculation

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northernladuk replied

18 June 2018, 21:37
Page 38 is where the bad news for you is. Took me about 30 seconds to find.

https://assets.publishing.service.go...aintenance.pdf

Also try some of the parenting forums. For example.. If you type the following in to google 'child maintenance company site:dad.info' you get 357 results

You've got to hope your ex isn't searching Mumsnet.com for the same information though. A lot of very angry women out for ripping their ex's a new one on there. Prey one of these isn't your ex!!!

Vary the search as well. Use LTD or limited instead of company etc...

EDIT : Ooops. Meant to reply to the thread by Coder Saturn, but I'll leave it in as it still looks like relevant info for this thread.
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kaiser78 replied

20 February 2018, 16:46
Originally posted by PerfectStorm View Post

Ouch. Given that maintenance will be payable at a proportion of your £11k, you may want to make voluntary contributions...!

Yes, so I was told by 1 CMS advisor that it is based on salary + dividends (pre tax) and by another advisor that it is based on gross profit of the limited company, in both cases excluding pension contributions. Hence my confusion...
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PerfectStorm replied

20 February 2018, 16:12
Ouch. Given that maintenance will be payable at a proportion of your £11k, you may want to make voluntary contributions...!
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SussexSeagull replied

20 February 2018, 14:38
I am no expert but I believe at the moment it is only salary taken into account, although there are moves afoot to change this:

Child Maintenance Loophole
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kaiser78 started a topic Child Maintenance Calculation

20 February 2018, 13:39
Child Maintenance Calculation

I am trying to work out child maintenance options, specifically what I am likely to being having to pay out, and frustratingly noone at the CSA/CMS is able to give a definitive answer as to how this is calculated for self employed/ contractor ltd types. Or rather they are providing me with conflicting information.

So for those who have been through this (or may otherwise know), how were your payments calculated – gross profit or salary or salary + dividends etc ?

And what happens for future projections, ie when spouse has been removed from the limited company as director/share holder ?
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