The Child Poverty Action Group released their report recently: The Cost of a Child in 2018. They based their calculations on what the majority of people think are the essentials to give a minimum standard of living. The report makes pretty grim reading in terms of the increasing gap between …
finances
Financial ‘needs’ and divorce
If you are dealing with divorce and the financial disentanglement flowing from that, I am sure you will have hear the phrases 'financial needs' or 'meeting the needs' or the phrase becoming more popular 'needs, generously interpreted'. You might be fine with understanding what that's about. It is a …
Brad, Angelina and child maintenance in ten easy steps
Children need financial support but is seems that child maintenance – the how much and how long for – can be a problem whoever you are and however much money you have. Not many of us are in the realms of Brad and Angelina. She says he is not paying any meaningful maintenance. He says he lent her …