Home ›Setting up child maintenance ›How maintenance is calculated ›Other child maintenance arrangements
Other child maintenance arrangements
What happens if a parent with care is entitled to receive child maintenance from different parents?
A parent with care may apply for child maintenance from more than one non-resident parent. In these cases, we work out the amount that each non-resident parent should pay separately.
Example
Vicky has three children. Mark is the non-resident parent of her daughter, and Chris is the non-resident parent of her two sons. We work out the amount of child maintenance Vicky receives as follows.
Mark pays child maintenance to Vicky of: £33 a week
(15% of his weekly income of £220).
Chris pays child maintenance to Vicky of: £50 a week
(20% of his weekly income of £250)
£33 + £50 is: £83.
Vicky gets £83 a week for child maintenance.
