Tracking down an ex-partner for child support – Here at Private Detective Sheffield we often get asked to track down individuals who are not paying child maintenance often when couples split and children are involved things can become a nightmare and even after things have been put in place by the court to make regular payments it is not uncommon for people to go to extra lengths to avoid paying this money such as moving house or not providing up to date contact details.
What is Child Maintenance?
Child maintenance is a financial arrangement where one parent provides regular payments to the other parent to support the cost of raising their child. This support is usually required when parents are separated, divorced, or no longer living together.
These payments typically help cover everyday expenses such as food, clothing, school essentials, and housing. However, as many parents will know, the true cost of raising a child often extends well beyond the basics.
What Determines the Amount of Child Maintenance?
The exact amount one parent should contribute is usually based on three main factors:
- The cost of raising a child
This includes essentials like housing, food, clothing, school supplies, and transport. Along with any other regular or unexpected expenses involved in a child’s upbringing. - Each parent’s income.
The amount one parent pays depends on how much each parent earns. The higher-earning parent pays more to support the child. This is typical, but is not definitive. - The level of care provided by each parent.
Child maintenance also considers how much time the child spends with each parent. If both parents share care equally, this may reduce or affect the amount one parent needs to pay the other.
What do I do once I have found the new address?
Once we have a confirmed address the first thing you need to do is contact the CSA (Child Support Agency). Notify them of your ex-partner’s new residence and they can then contact them to arrange the monies owed.
How long does the trace take to complete?
With an address trace, we always allow up to one week to complete the investigation. Tracking down an ex-partner for child support is a specialised service that we excel at!
Do you operate on a no-win/no-fee basis?
We do not work on a no win/no fee basis unfortunately due to the up-to-date systems we use of course costs money to utilise we are very transparent with our fees and we charge the client a fixed cost in order to locate an individual.
Why choose us?
We have worked on hundreds of cases to locate missing individuals and we have access to tracing systems which allow us to verify individuals’ addresses we have a very high success rate.
For more information on the other types of investigations we conduct please take a look at our investigations page on Investigations & Background Checks or if you wish to speak to someone in more detail regarding your case please contact us on 0114 3240212.