This paper describes what steps the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) may take when a Non-Resident Parent (also known as a “Paying Parent”) fails to pay child maintenance on time or in full. It also provides information on the application, collection and enforcement fees charged by the CMS, and briefly summarises analysis on the effectiveness of the CMS’s enforcement and collection system. This paper relates primary to Great Britain: Section 6 describes Northern Ireland’s system.
Documents to download
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Legal help: where to go and how to pay (608 KB, PDF)
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Supporting documents
- No win, no fee funding arrangements (450 KB, PDF) (450 KB, PDF)
- Legal advice and help in employment matters (370 KB, PDF) (370 KB, PDF)
This Commons Library briefing paper provides information about sources of legal help and advice, and how to pay for it, including:
- Finding legal help;
- Self-representation;
- Legal aid;
- Pro bono legal help;
- Other ways of finding legal advice, including organisations which provide help and advice in connection with specific legal issues.
Legal help or advice should be given by a suitably qualified person with professional liability insurance.
Related Commons Library briefing papers
- Legal advice and help in employment matters, SN/BT/2830, 9 June 2017
- No win, no free funding arrangements, CBP/HA/7607, 31 May 2016
Hypertext links and URLs in this note are accurate at the date of publication, 1 August 2019.
The Library is unable to endorse or take responsibility for the content of any external website, directory or publication mentioned in this note, or to recommend any specific legal advisers. Many of the organisations listed in this paper were found via a web search only and this list may not be exhaustive.
Documents to download
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Legal help: where to go and how to pay (608 KB, PDF)
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Supporting documents
- No win, no fee funding arrangements (450 KB, PDF) (450 KB, PDF)
- Legal advice and help in employment matters (370 KB, PDF) (370 KB, PDF)
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