The Child Maintenance Service, known as the CMS, deals with the majority of instances where child maintenance payments are needed. Parents can apply to the CMS for a child maintenance assessment which specifies how much they are to pay or receive. Where there are divorce proceedings, parents can agree a Child Maintenance Order, which specifies the sum that one parent is to pay the other in child maintenance. This is usually a sum that is higher than the CMS calculation. However, in … [Read more...]