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NRP
Nonresident Parent
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Person with the responsibility to pay child support maintenance
(New term, from to 2001-01-31)
(It is not used within the child support system to indicate that this person cares for the child less than another person, or that the child normally doesn't live with this person. The child support system has no use for a term with that meaning).
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This is a parent who lives in a separate household from the PWC and QC for whom they are liable to pay maintenance under the Child Support Act. Where parents have shared care, the parent who has the children for the shorter period is regarded as the non-resident parent.
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Now consider where the mother and father share care equally. Obviously in that case the CSA definition is total poppycock!
This is not some subtle nit-picking point. Whoever wrote that CSA definition simply didn't comprehend the function of the term "AP", then "NRP", within the CSA system, and its precise definition is law. And neither do millions of people in the UK, nor most of the media & politicians. A brilliant piece of double-think!
The term simply means that the CSA's first stage, which determines who will pay whom, has made a decision. It may be because one of the parents cares for the child for longer than the other. Or it may simple mean that the one who can't receive Child Benefit for the child is designated the one who must pay, and the one who receives Child Benefit is designated the one who will receive - even if they care for the child equal amounts of time, and even if the receiver earns vastly more money than the payer.
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