What is Child Maintenance Options?

Child Maintenance Options (Options) is a new service for separating or separated parents, as well as family, friends, guardians, and anyone else with an interest in child maintenance.

Options will help you to find the right child maintenance arrangement for you and your child, by giving you impartial information on all the options available to you.

Options can also provide practical support on many of the other issues you may face when parenting apart.

How can Child Maintenance Options help me?

Options provides information and support that will help you to:

• understand the options for making a child maintenance arrangement if you don’t already have one,
• check if your existing arrangement is the right one for you and your child,
• deal with other issues linked to child maintenance, such as housing, work, money and emotional wellbeing,
• get in touch with other useful organisations that offer specialist advice.