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Transforming child maintenance: Chloe's story

Chloe has two children and started using the Child Maintenance System after she separated from her children’s dad due to domestic abuse. 

My children's dad runs a successful Ltd company with two offices, many members of staff, company cars and a long history of high income. Yet for the first two years he managed to get away with paying based upon minimum wage only.

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