Guidance

Child maintenance: adjusting payments for 'split care': factsheet

This factsheet explains how we adjust child maintenance payments when children live with different parents ('split care').

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 1 October 2013
• Last updated: 27 October 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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How payments can be adjusted to take ‘split care’ into account

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78153-747-3, CMSB045GB

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How payments can be adjusted to take ‘split care’ into account

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78153-747-3, 978-1-78153-747-3

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Sometimes some children in a child maintenance case live with one parent and other children in the same case live with the other parent. We call this ‘split care’. This factsheet explains how we adjust payments to take ‘split care’ into account.

Find out more about child maintenance.

Published 1 October 2013

Last updated 27 October 2023 + show all updates

1. 27 October 2023

   Published updated version of the factsheet 'How payments can be adjusted to take ‘split care’ into account'.

2. 1 October 2013

   First published.