This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Create a better Child Maintenance Service for our children and parents!
The Child Maintenance Service has a history of failings in both its service to resident and non-resident parents. We wish for a fundamental change in policy to bring about fairer calculations of maintenance, abolish DEOs completely and establish evidence-based appeals with due process.
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The Child Maintenance Service has failed. The National Audit Office finds it unfit for purpose with questionable calculations and procedures that unfairly stifle a parent's right to due process. It has been a tool used by toxic parents to alienate a child from their non-resident parents and punitively and financially punish them. We ask for a fundamental policy change to include that all maintenance costs be joint. That DEO's be removed completely and that appeals on CMS payments be means tested.
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