LM v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Subject Matter

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

[2024] UKUT 259 (AAC); [2025] PTSR 385; [2024] WLR(D) 460, UT

Commentary

Financial Remedies Journal
Child Maintenance and Mortgage Payments – New Guidance: LM v SSWP & NM [2024] UKUT 259 (AAC) Case comment