When do I stop paying?

I was divorced in 1996 and a maintenance order was agreed by the court for my three children and was the subject of a court order that said that maintenance should continue to be paid until all the chirdren reached the age of eighteen. The eldest children are over twenty and no longer subject to the order. My youngest child will be 17 in May 2008. She left school last year and now has a full-time job. She will not be going into further education.

I am finding it almost impossible to get a definitive response to this question

'Although the court order says until my daughter is 18 do I still have to pay maintenance if she is working full time? and If so how can I get the court to overturn the original court order.

My ex wife is wealthy and not on benefit and this arrangement was never covered by the CSA.

Any advice would be very welcome.

Your obligations depend on the terms of the order. Without
seeing it neither I nor anyone could advise you. You can always apply for a variation on the grounds of changed circumstances but in view of the fact that she is so near to 18 I wonder if that would be worth the expense.

Mike 100468

Thanks Mike, I had pretty well come to that conclusion myself.