When does Child Maintenance stop?

A question about : When does Child Maintenance stop?

My 16 yr DS lives with his dad and I pay voluntary maintenance as he is at college full time doing a BTEC. He has an interview tomorrow to go for a modern apprenticeship where he works 4 days and attends college 1 day to get his HNC. I presume If he gets this I don't have to pay maintenance any more?
Have been on the CSA website which is as useful as a chocolate teapot, no way will I ring them!!
Hope someone has experience of this!!

Best answers:

• I will cease when the Child Benefit ceases. There is a list of non-advanced education on their website. If HNC is not listed then liability should cease. Normally it ceases if the child is 16 and goes to work, or up to 19 if in full-time non-advanced education (which includes A levels or equivalent, but Higher education does not count as non-advanced).
• I must be going mad. I was under the impression that if there is already a CSA case for a child in existence when they are in full time school, then if that child continues onto Uni without a break (ie does A Levels then goes to Uni that Autumn), that maintenance can still legitimately be claimed from the NRP until the child completes their degree.
  ... have I lost the plot cos I'm sure it was stated several times in a similar query thread on this site a while back?
• Ah, that'll be it! Cheers Mr GG.
  I presume that as a Uni student without sizeable income (just the usual bits of p/t work), my daughter would be exempt from paying the court fee?
  Would she apply to the local County Court and does she just apply like a normal maintenance claim that a PWC would make to the court?
  So many questions, so little money and not enough caffeine in the country!
• And would this claim only be up to a maximum age of 19?
• This claim would be until the end of the Uni course, but answers to Welshcakes' question would be great as I need some answers myself!!
• From the CSA website, click link and then select the GLOSSARY on the left hand side.
  https://www.csa.gov.uk/en/PDF/leaflets/new/CSL301.pdf
• CSA have told my hubbie 2nd mon in sept following the childs 18th birthday.
  So is this wrong?
  Also what if they leave colleage at 17 ?
  Thanks
• If they leave college at 17 and child benefit stops then it is this date.
• MissMP
  Was your maintenance a CSA case that you successfully kept 'alive' for the Uni duration direct to you as the PWC ie a continuance of payments to you as oppose to your Uni child having to make a fresh application upon entering Uni?
• Thats really interesting. I wonder could you help me answer a very similar question then. My son has jut turned 17 and is still in full time education A levels at school. Our court order states until he is 17. My ex husband has stopped paying as son has reached 17 but the boy is still at school so Im seriously out of pocket. Is this right? Please help?
• Exactly the same situation as my Wife with her ex Husband. Upon asking the court the same question, she was told that the current case will close on her Son's 17th birthday. Her Son will then have to make an application to the court by himself to claim maintenance from his Father. Bear in mind, that he can also put in a claim to the court for maintenance from his Mother!
• If the child is 17 and still in FTE there is nothing stopping the CSA from making an assessment which will last until they are out of FTE or their 19th birthday if it comes first.
  Can a child make an application (after the age of 18) against either parent, or does it have to be from both? My daughter is going to Uni in September and wants to put in a claim against her father to maintain her for this period but is concerned that she may have to claim against me too, yet I have been assessed by the Council and she gets a partial grant due to the household income being low enough (I too am a full-time student in Uni and so have no income of my own). Can anybody help here? What forms does she need? I have rang the Family Division of the Court and they know nothing about what I am talking.