Payment agreement for child maintenance and other maintenance payments

If you have maintenance debts and are unable to pay the full amount at once, you can apply to pay the claim in instalments.

You can only get a payment agreement for your maintenance debt. The monthly maintenance payment cannot be split into several payments. Nor can you get a payment agreement for extraordinary contributions.

Once the child maintenance payment scheme is established, there is often a backlog of due payments that the maintenance payer owes the maintenance recipients. This happens because the period for child maintenance starts with the date of the application. This means that payments are applied retrospectively, and you therefore have maintenance debt to pay.

When you receive the invoice for the maintenance debt, you can choose to pay the entire sum at once or you can spread the payments over several months through a payment agreement. You must pay the maintenance debt in addition to the regular monthly maintenance payment.

If you do not pay your maintenance debt, the claim may be collected via enforcement proceedings.

Paying maintenance in instalments

You can pay in instalments if you have a child maintenance claim or other maintenance claim with retrospective effect (maintenance debts). 

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Paying in instalments

  • Claims under NOK 100,000 must be paid within two years, and the monthly instalment must be at least NOK 500.
  • Claims of NOK 100,000 or more must be paid within four years.

You may propose a monthly instalment amount above the minimum amounts. We’ll consider your proposal against our criteria.

You cannot have received a notification of attachment proceedings for the claims you’re applying for a payment agreement for, and it must not have been decided that deductions will be made from your income.

You cannot appeal a payment agreement.

It’s important that you follow the agreement so your claim does not proceed to enforcement proceedings and a deduction from your income.

If you have serious debt problems

If you have large debts to other creditors as well as to the Tax Administration, you should apply for a joint agreement with your creditors, a debt settlement.