H v I (Child Maintenance)

Tom Harvey 1 Hare Court (instructed by Payne Hicks Beach) for the Applicant Tom Dance 1 King's Bench Walk (instructed by Farrer & Co) for the Respondent Hearing dates: 19th September 2023 ____________________

i) M's application to enforce the child periodical payments order made by Nicholas Cusworth KC in 2020 (the "2020 Order") by such method as the court considers appropriate, made in Form D50K on 3 March 2023; and in the alternative

ii) M's application that F pay top-up maintenance at the rate previously determined by the Court; and

iii) F's application dated 8 June 2023 to vary his child maintenance obligations downwards both in relation to child maintenance and school fees.

Although the parties accept that the jurisdiction of the CMS cannot be excluded for more than one year, neither party has any intention of applying to the CMS for a CMS calculation in substitution of the periodical payments payable under paragraph 53 below