Child Maintenance

The Family Court has defined Child Maintenance to include:

'Financial provision for all reasonable, current and likely future daily requirements, including out of pocket, adequate housing, health and education related expenses, as well as any special needs. If is not a single concept concerned only with the payment of money.'

It is an obligation placed on both parents to maintain any children they have had together. This obligation has priority over all others except those necessary to allow the parent to support him or herself and any other children or person that the parent has a duty to maintain.

We can provide additional, more specialised advice on all of the above when you contact our ofices.