Why don’t we talk about child maintenance much? To me, it seems, child maintenance is the one family money matter that is consistently under reported by the mainstream media and by financial as well as family bloggers. We just don’t talk about child maintenance. Why don’t we hear more about […]
Is Your Ex Dodging Child Maintenance By Not Declaring Income? Tell The Minister! UPDATE: The new minister responsible for the Child Maintenance Service is Will Quince – contact him via email or through his website. (It’s a worrying sign that there have been five people responsible since I wrote this post! […]
I was a single parent for six years. For the last 10 years, I’ve been trying to get child maintenance. Going through the child maintenance system can be like trying to scale an impossibly high wall, without ever knowing if there will be anything on the other side. It seems […]
Why maintenance matters: I recently found out about Gingerbread’s campaign, Maintenance Matters, and of course I had to learn more. Here’s a copy of the letter I wrote via Gingerbread’s website. It’s adapted slightly from their stock letter; if you want to write your MP but don’t know what to […]
Everything I learned from my father – about money. I’d love for this to be some light-hearted list article, but it won’t be. It’s my own story of growing up with a father who taught me lessons by example… and at a distance. Mum and me, rocking the 70s look. […]
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