Legal Questions about Child Support and Residential Address


Questioner

According to our parenting plan, my (16 year old) daughter stays with my ex and is with me for 1 weekend every 14 days (+ half of the holidays). Now the marital home has finally been sold and my ex has to move out of that home this month. Since she doesn't have a new place to live yet, she goes to friends and asks if my daughter can stay with me for an indefinite period. I don't think this is a problem in principle. My questions are these: - Am I obliged to continue paying child support to my ex? - since my daughter needs to have a residential address, I need to register her at my address. What happens to child benefit, child-related budget, etc? - Are there any other rights/obligations that I should be aware of?

Lawyer

If your daughter will be staying with you, there will be a change in circumstances that will result in you no longer having to pay alimony to your ex-partner for the benefit of your daughter. This is unless your ex-partner still incurs costs for your daughter, such as education costs. I advise you to discuss this with your ex-partner if this is the case. If you also want the contribution to be set at zero, you will in principle have to start new legal proceedings to then request that the contribution be set at zero in court in view of the changed circumstances. If you do not do this, you run the risk that your ex-partner could take legal measures against you to obtain the unpaid alimony. If desired, I can assist you in starting this procedure. If you register your daughter at your address, you will also be the one who receives child benefit and possibly also a child-related budget for your daughter. The latter is income-dependent. Child benefit is not.

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