Divorce and children

What you need to know about divorce and children, including child custody and child maintenance

Divorce and children – answers to the most common questions about parents’ rights, childcare arrangements and child maintenance payments

Agreeing the arrangements for your children: how child custody is decided, what rights the non-resident parent has and getting a court order

When child maintenance is payable, how much child maintenance should be, making child maintenance arrangements and how to enforce payment

Who has parental responsibility, how to get a parental responsibility agreement or order, and financial responsibility for step-children

How the Child Maintenance Service works out and helps collect maintenance payments, and what is happening to old Child Support Agency cases