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[2025] PTSR 385
Upper Tribunal
LM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and another
[2024] UKUT 259 (AAC)
2024 Aug 27
Upper Tribunal Judge Markus KC
Children— Child support maintenance— Calculation— Special expenses variation made to non-resident father’s child support liability on basis of mortgage payments on property jointly owned by father and mother and purchased with joint mortgage— Father no longer living in property but mother and child continuing to do so— First-tier Tribunal upholding special expenses variation on basis mortgage constituting debt incurred for joint benefit of non-resident parent and person with care— Whether special expenses variation properly made— Whether property retained for father’s use—
Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/2677), regs 65, 67