The advice covers areas including child maintenance, tax credits and steps to take when a relationship ends.

There's a free service that can talk you through all the facts, in confidence, about child maintenance, whatever your circumstances.

Another option open to any single mother is to sue the baby's father for child maintenance.

Quite a lot of young girls, however, choose not to sue for child maintenance.

From 10 December 2012 a new system of child maintenance began operation, initially for specific applicants.

The example below shows what happens when there are not enough net earnings to pay the full amount of child maintenance owed.

With the federal legislation, the non-biological parent can now be made to pay child maintenance.

A prompt reply from you allows child maintenance to be calculated more quickly.

See the page in this guide on your legal obligations for deducting child maintenance.

Her income also includes child maintenance from the father and child benefit.