Links to information about how to sort out child maintenance yourselves, about using the government's Child Maintenance Service, how the courts can help and where to get information about your options.

Explains how you can agree child maintenance yourself. Includes information about how to work out how much the payments should be, where you can get help to agree payments and how you can formalise your agreement.

The Child Maintenance Service is there for you to use if you and your child's other parent can’t agree arrangements for child maintenance between you. Information about paying child maintenance, what happens if there is a disagreement about parentage, changes you need to report, complaints and appeals.

Links to a calculator you can use to work out how much child maintenance you should pay or get if you are arranging it yourselves.

What can happen if you get into arrears of child maintenance. (Content applies to England and Wales only.)

Explains your options if you disagree with your child maintenance calculation. The information you need depends on whether you receive child maintenance through the Child Support Agency (‘CSA’) or the Child Maintenance Service (‘CMS’). Check your records to see which scheme you are using and then select the information that applies to you.

Explains what you can do if you disagree with a decision the Child Support Agency has made about how much child maintenance you must pay or should receive.