Financial

Manage your finances effectively after separation, covering child maintenance, tax implications, and planning for your financial independence and future.

A Guide to Child Maintenance Payments

The second in our series of separated dads guides relates to child maintenance and the issues surrounding it. Child maintenance is designed to make parents r...

Buying Presents for Your Kids

Once the bitterness and emotional wrangling of the initial separation is over, separated parents can become very competitive. When warring ex-spouses try to...

Child Maintenance Payments: An Overview

The end of a relationship with your partner is never the end where children are involved. Of course, you want to be a part of the lives of your kids, to see...

Child maintenance: What am I paying for?

What is child maintenance? Child maintenance is the financial support that one parent pays to the other to help with the everyday costs of raising their chil...

Coping Financially After a Separation

There’s a lot more to separation that learning to deal with a new emotional state or making arrangements regarding your children. In practical terms, sorti...

Housing for Separated Fathers

With separation, housing becomes an urgent and thorny issue. You might well own your current house with your partner, but what happens to that when you split...

How Many Fathers Don't Pay Child Support?

In 2007, the Liberal Democrats revealed that the Child Support Agency (CSA) had failed to collect maintenance in 34% of cases where one parent owed money. Th...

Insurance and Investments for Children Following Separation

Following a separation, you’ll find that there are a number of financial issues that need to be addressed. One is putting together a new financial future f...

Misuse of Maintenance Payments

It is not uncommon for separated dads to be concerned at what their ex is doing with the money that is supposed to benefit their child or children. Of course...

Working With the CSA on Support Payments

The financial circumstances of a separated father can change. Sometimes they’re for the better, if you get a new job or you get a good pay rise. At other t...

Your Financial Future After Separation

After separation your finances won’t be in the same shape they were when you were part of a couple. You’ll still have your bills to pay, plus monthly Mai...