High Court Judge, Mr Justice Mostyn produces new CMS rules for High earners
Judge Mostyn has recently produced two important judgements in relation to qualifications for child maintenance in cases where parents earn more than £156,000 gross per annum.
The calculations are simple enough, too simple some say, when laid out in the charts in the Todays Family Lawyer. What does show up starkly is that if you have your child for 175 overnights per year, you still only get a CMS payment reduction of 3/7ths. Put another way. You still pay half your CMS payments when you have your child for a fraction short of 6 months a year. This is a financial incentive to limit parenting opportunities and shared parenting. This just must change.
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