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Child maintenance calculators

Different countries around the world have different approaches for determining the Different countries around the world have different approaches to determining the amount of child maintenance payments. In some countries, the child maintenance amount is determined by agreement between the parties. In some, it is determined by a court, for example, if it is not possible to reach an agreement.

Needless to say, court costs can be very expensive, the process is often lengthy, inaccurate, and the outcome unpredictable. If maintenance is awarded by a court to different people in different courts inside one country, then the results are different, which does not comply with the one law, one truth principle.

People are often justifiably dissatisfied and appeal to the court in the next instance of the court, the process is delayed and made even more expensive, and the beneficiaries are certainly not children who could receive the money spent in the proceedings as the same maintenance payments. All this is long-term stress and its consequences, which can best be explained by a medical professional who specializes in this qualification.

There are a number of countries in the world where people have realized that it is very difficult to agree on maintenance, but lengthy court proceedings are very expensive. That’s why they use very smart automatic child maintenance calculators.

Maintenance calculators are one reason to argue less, to save money, time, nerves…

Child maintenance calculators have a number of advantages:

• Child maintenance calculators are dynamic and fast (people can quickly calculate the sum every month, for example, it is possible to determine alimony for the variable part of payers income for a particular month);
• Contrary to a court ruling, which usually provides for a fixed amount, maintenance calculators are able to respond to unemployment, illness, pandemics, etc;
• These calculators are usually placed on national (official) portals, so there is no doubt about the accuracy of the data presented;
• Calculators relieve the work of the courts, as it is not necessary to cash the checks collected in court or otherwise prove expenses;
• Calculators make it possible to determine precisely the amount of maintenance to be paid, which in turn facilitates other calculations (in the case of divorce and division of property, the results of the calculation of the maintenance calculator can be used together with the valuation of the property and mortgage calculators);
• Calculators rule out corruption or the suspicion that alimony has been determined incorrectly for some reason; if a state is able to pinpoint a ‘value’ with a precise algorithm, it is one place less where people will try to engage in corrupt practices;
• some of the maintenance calculators take into account the income of both the paying and the receiving party;
• some maintenance calculators take into account the time a child spends with each parent, divorced parents are still parents and both should be able to see the children;
• Usually, maintenance calculators also take into account the limits of the children’s real needs (the child’s maintenance requires a certain amount of money that the paying party is able to provide, a child does not need an unlimited amount per month for maintenance);
• The predictability and accuracy of maintenance calculators allow people to live beyond divorce, as opposed to other methods.

The above arguments are sufficient to discuss the introduction of child maintenance calculators in countries where they are not yet used. Countries with a workload of courts and other cases to be resolved. At the moment, I have come across maintenance calculators in the following countries: Germany, Great Britain, USA (each state has its own calculator), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Finland, Norway, Japan …