Department of Justice Launches Child Maintenance Calculator

In early 2026, the Department of Justice launched the long awaited Child Maintenance Guidelines and the Child Maintenance calculator. The Child Maintenance Guidelines explain how the calculator was devised, it’s financial logic and its limitations.  The purpose of the Child Maintenance Calculator was to support families to work out an amount of child maintenance for their children and hopefully reduce the need to go to court because of child maintenance.  It will […]