Child maintenance if a parent lives abroad
Overview
You cannot make a new application to the Child Maintenance Service if the child and the parent with the main day-to-day care live abroad.
There are circumstances where the service can help if the paying parent lives abroad.
You can make a private child maintenance arrangement yourself - if one or both parents live abroad.
This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).
Enforcing a child maintenance decision
You can ask a court for help if the other parent does not pay any child maintenance they owe you. This is known as taking 바카라 사이트˜enforcement action바카라 사이트™.
You cannot enforce a private child maintenance arrangement you바카라 사이트™ve made yourself - you need to make it legally binding first.
You can also ask the court to change an existing child maintenance decision or make a new one.
How you enforce, change or make a decision depends on:
- where the other parent lives
- where your original decision was made
The UK has a Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders (REMO) agreement with a number of other countries. Courts in 바카라 사이트˜REMO countries바카라 사이트™ can enforce child maintenance decisions made by UK courts.
Child maintenance decisions made in Scotland or Northern Ireland
The process is different if you want to enforce a child maintenance decision that was originally made in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
If the decision was made in Scotland
Contact the Scottish government for advice.
maintenanceenforcement@gov.scot
Telephone: 0131 244 3570 or 0131 244 4829
Fax: 0131 244 4848
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The Scottish 바카라 사이트 Justice Directorate
Central Authority and International Law Team
St Andrew바카라 사이트™s House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
If the decision was made in Northern Ireland
Contact the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service for advice.
reciprocalenforcement@courtsni.gov.uk
Telephone: 0300 200 7812
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Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service
Laganside House
23 - 27 Oxford Street
Belfast
BT1 3LA