Updates

Updates

News on the things that affect separated dads, changes to the law and the family court, and to this site.

• 10 June 2026

  What the announced child maintenance changes could mean

  The government has announced that the threshold for recalculating child maintenance when income changes will drop from 25% to 15%. A wider review of how the amount is calculated has been dropped, and removing Direct Pay is still pending. Here is the plain-English version.