Divorce, separation and legal issues

Child maintenance and disagreements about parentage

Child maintenance

• Child Maintenance Service
• Calculate your child maintenance
• How the Child Maintenance Service works out child maintenance
• Making child arrangements if you divorce or separate
• Child maintenance if a parent lives abroad

Disagreements about parentage

• Adding a father's name to a birth certificate
• Correct a birth registration

Child custody

• Find help to get your child back from abroad or arrange contact
• Stop someone getting a passport
• If your child is taken into care