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Child arrangements, holidays, child maintenance and children’s expenses in Spain, with links to the official sources. It isn’t legal advice.
Child maintenance and inflation
Child maintenance in Spain and the yearly CPI update: how to calculate it, with an example
How to update child maintenance (pensión de alimentos) with Spain's CPI (IPC): which index and month your agreement sets, the formula, an example with the INE figure for September 2026 (4.9%), the INE calculator and common mistakes.
October 2026 · 6 min
Ordinary and extraordinary child expenses in Spain: what goes in each and how to ask for your share
What Spanish agreements usually treat as ordinary or extraordinary child expenses after a separation, when to ask for consent first, how they're split and a short message to ask for your share with the amount and the receipt.
ExpensesOctober 2026 · 7 min
Shared care in Spain: how to split Christmas, Easter and summer holidays in 2026-27
How separated parents in Spain usually split school holidays under shared care: halves, even and odd years, with worked calendar examples from the official 2026-27 school calendars of Madrid and Asturias.
Calendar and holidaysOctober 2026 · 7 min
Spain's 2026-27 school calendar by region and what it means for shared care
Start, Christmas, Easter and end-of-year dates for the 2026-27 school year in all 17 Spanish regions and the 2 autonomous cities, with Andalusia by province, taken from each official bulletin, and how to use them to split holidays.
Calendar and holidaysOctober 2026 · 9 min