Sir Bert Preast

So the divorce goes through as if there was no kid involved? Find that rather hard to believe tbh.

Neil Purvis

You might end up paying money to the mother, but not the child.

Sir Bert Preast

I thought kids were taken into account in calculating how much was needed to maintain the mother?

Neil Purvis

It would be tricky because you might have to pay to maintain the mother but you wouldn’t need to pay towards the child’s upbringing.

Sir Bert Preast

That'd be down to the bloke she had the affair with a few years back?

Any examples? Where's bloody Tringham when you need him?

Neil Purvis

Hypothetical situation would be where the married couple agree for the woman to give up her job to look after the child while the husband carries on at work.

5 years down the line when they split he’ll have gained promotions / pay rises etc. while she can’t go back to her old job for whatever reasons. He might end up having to subsidise her loss of earnings because it was a joint decision.

This would only apply to her loss of earnings and not the upbringing of the child, which would fall under the responsibility of the real dad.

Maybe.

Sir Bert Preast

It's bloody hard to find any linkage, isn't it?

I think I'm right - the husband would have to pay, and try to sue whoever she had the affair with if he didn't like it.

Maybe.

Sir Bert Preast

Best I can find is that you're liable to pay for adopted children, but not usually for step-children.

You'd think someone would've thought the implications through a bit before making same-sex marriage possible, wouldn't you?

TheCranker

If there were cases where non-fathers were being paid to force for random kids linkage would be the easiest thing to find in the world. Any of the "Daily Scare Men and General Pussies" style newspapers would have to front to back.

Sir Bert Preast

Find some for us then?

Hardly a random kid, you're married to the mother ffs.