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Child maintenance: adjusting payments for 'split care': factsheet

This factsheet explains how we adjust child maintenance payments when children live with different parents ('split care').

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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How payments can be adjusted to take 鈥榮plit care鈥� into account

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Sometimes some children in a child maintenance case live with one parent and other children in the same case live with the other parent. We call this 鈥榮plit care鈥�. This factsheet explains how we adjust payments to take 鈥榮plit care鈥� into account.

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Updates to this page

Published 1 October 2013
Last updated 27 October 2023 show all updates
  1. Published updated version of the factsheet 'How payments can be adjusted to take 鈥榮plit care鈥� into account'.

  2. First published.

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