Using Child Maintenance to coerce or control is now a criminal offence!
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The UK government has introduced new statutory guidance about the definition of coercive control. For parents that use child maintenance to control or coerce their former partners, this could now mean facing prosecution. Many of you reading this blog will know that not paying child maintenance or not paying it regularly is a very common form of economic abuse that happens after the relationship has ended. It is a tool used to further control and coerce the victims/survivor and can have a massive effect on not just the victims but also the children of the family. If the victim/survivor isn’t getting child maintenance they may find it really difficult to feed and clothe their children. The perpetrator does not see this as being abusive to his children, but he is!
Using Child Maintenance to coerce or control is now a criminal offence!
Using Child Maintenance to coerce or control…
Using Child Maintenance to coerce or control is now a criminal offence!
The UK government has introduced new statutory guidance about the definition of coercive control. For parents that use child maintenance to control or coerce their former partners, this could now mean facing prosecution. Many of you reading this blog will know that not paying child maintenance or not paying it regularly is a very common form of economic abuse that happens after the relationship has ended. It is a tool used to further control and coerce the victims/survivor and can have a massive effect on not just the victims but also the children of the family. If the victim/survivor isn’t getting child maintenance they may find it really difficult to feed and clothe their children. The perpetrator does not see this as being abusive to his children, but he is!