If you are married and going through a divorce, the courts can make separate orders for both spousal maintenance and, if there has been a maximum CMS assessment or one of the parents lives outside the UK, child maintenance. Any order will usually be incorporated in the body of the overall Divorce Financial Settlement order. Sometimes the courts will make what is called a “global” order. This provides for an overall award of maintenance but allows for that award to be reduced by the amount of child maintenance paid under the CMS. If you are not married, then you will not be able to apply for spousal maintenance but the courts have interpreted the needs of a child of high net worth non-marital parents in Schedule 1 claims generously.