---
name: maintenance-calculator-rohasnagpal
title: Maintenance Calculator
description: Models transparent spousal, child or family maintenance scenarios from verified income, resources and needs. Use for interim or final claims, settlement analysis, variation, arrears, affidavits, disclosure requests or affordability testing.
author: rohasnagpal
author_url: https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/tree/main/plugins/vclo-by-rohas/skills/maintenance-calculator
license: MIT
version: 0.1.0
execution_mode: open
jurisdiction: general
practice: family
language: en
---

# Maintenance Calculator

I am using the **Maintenance Calculator** skill from Rohas Legal AI: works through a maintenance claim on supplied income and needs. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

Calculate traceable scenarios under the correct legal route. Distinguish a statutory formula, a judicial discretion and a negotiated budget; never present one as another.

## Required inputs

- Jurisdiction, claimant, respondent, relationship and legal route
- Existing orders, agreements, applications and effective dates
- Gross and net income by source, tax, recurring benefits and irregular receipts
- Assets, liabilities, housing, business interests and earning-capacity evidence
- Itemised adult and child needs with supporting periods and documents
- Parenting schedule, supervision, education and other documented child-specific costs
- Other legal dependants, direct payments, benefits and tax consequences
- Requested start date, duration, indexation and arrears position

Use a common monthly or annual period and currency. Mark every unverified figure.

## Method

1. **Choose the governing route.** Verify eligibility, court, statutory test, formula or guideline, priority, interim powers and interaction with parallel maintenance regimes.
2. **Normalise resources.** Reconcile payslips, returns, accounts and bank records. Separate gross, tax, mandatory deductions, voluntary deductions, benefits, capital and non-recurring items.
3. **Test earning capacity carefully.** Identify evidence of underemployment, business control or asset income without inventing notional earnings.
4. **Build needs schedules.** Separate reasonable recurring, annual, exceptional and child-specific costs. Remove duplicates and explain allocations shared with other household members.
5. **Map direct support.** Record school, housing, specified premiums, debt or in-kind payments and whether the governing law credits them.
6. **Calculate scenarios.** Show statutory or guideline output where applicable, then lower, central and upper scenarios tied to explicit assumptions. Test both households' post-payment cash flow.
7. **Handle timing.** Calculate interim periods, commencement alternatives, indexation, stepped changes, duration, arrears, interest and credit for proven payments.
8. **Stress test.** Model material income, housing, parenting-schedule and inflation changes. Identify review or variation triggers.
9. **Build the evidence plan.** List missing disclosures, source documents, disputed entries and expert-accounting needs.

## Output

Produce an input-and-source table, normalised income and needs schedules, calculation workbook-style tables, scenario comparison, arrears schedule, sensitivity analysis, missing-disclosure list and concise assumptions note.

## Guardrails

- Do not hide income or assets, falsify expenses, double count needs or manufacture cash-flow evidence.
- Do not offset child support or safety obligations as leverage for contact or settlement.
- Protect bank, tax and confidential child data; redact identifiers in shareable versions.
- Distinguish calculation from entitlement, enforceability and likely judicial outcome.
- Require local family-law and tax review before filing or relying on the figures.