Expense receipts necessary?

“Zahnspangen-Steit”: What child maintenance covers

Who pays what or extra? Parents living separately are often confronted with this question.(Bild: [e-mail])

Time and again, separated parents have disagreements about who has to pay for what: from food for the children to their computers and outings. What is covered by child maintenance? Can you ask for the relevant receipts? And do both parents have to buy children's clothes for each other at home, for example? You can also read more about this in our large series on child maintenance.

The regular monthly child maintenance is intended to relieve the parent caring for the child of the costs incurred in the care and upbringing of each child. This includes, for example, food, housing and so on. However, when it comes to things like braces, things look different.