At Child Maintenance Options, we provide impartial information and support to help both parents make informed choices about child maintenance.
The fact that we're impartial means we are here to help both parents and we aren't biased towards any one way of arranging child maintenance.
We're here to help you:
- if you're separating from the other parent or are not living with them and you need to set up a child maintenance arrangement
- if you're thinking of switching from a private agreement to an arrangement using the Child Support Agency (CSA), or the other way round
- if your child maintenance arrangement has broken down or is not working as you'd like it to.
We can also offer practical information in areas linked to child maintenance, such as housing, employment and money. Although we're not experts in these areas, we can put you in touch with specialist organisations that can provide help and advice.
If you're a guardian, relative or friend, or if you have a professional interest in finding out more about child maintenance, we may also be able to help you.
Child Maintenance Options is a service provided by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. The Commission is the Non-Departmental Public Body that's responsible for child maintenance in Great Britain.
The Child Support Agency (CSA) is the statutory child maintenance service. We can give you information about the CSA because that's one way of arranging child maintenance.