CSA want money, but other debts come first!
March 21, 2010
In 2001 my marriage broke down after many troubled years and psychological problems suffred by my wife due to childhood abuse at the hands of social service employees. The breakup was amicable and my ex-wife and I had a financial arrangment where I paid her around £300 per month and I also took out a personal loan to take on all the family debt that was in joint names and put it all into my name to reduce the financial burden on her. It is not a fantastic amount of money but on an annual gross salary of £17,000 it is not an insignificant amount.
We also shared the social responsibility of bringing our children up to be responsible in society and still do, although they are now all out of full time education. Because my ex-wife was and still is on benefits, some 9 years later the CSA became involved and interevened in our financial arrangement. They made a calculation on the old system and came up with a much higher figure that I could not afford and Read more
Self employed getting away without paying CSA
March 19, 2010
Today I received a new schedule after asking the CSA to review maintenance for my three daughters. I have been advised that my ex partner has less than £5 net income each week and is not eligible to contribute anything towards their up bringing. Despite having his own business in the motor trade and a good standard of living on paper I’m told it is not sustainable?
Apparently,holidays abroad and luxurious items in and around the home are not considered living beyond his means??? It upsets me that someone can go to this extreme just to avoid contributing to the up bringing of their own flesh and blood.
CSA never offer an answer to how he is indeed surviving. When is this loophole to self employment ever going to be recognised?
Ex using CSA to ruin my life
March 18, 2010
I’ve just read Patrick Rodgers’ post (February 13). You have my sympathy, Patrick. Let me tell you how my ex has screwed the system. It won’t make you feel any better about your problems, but this is how bad it could get…
My ex is not a UK national. Born in South Africa, where her family made their fortune in diamond mining. But she came over here from Sydney.
I was bullied into our marriage, she got pregnant, and I was bullied out of it again. I divorced her for her unreasonable behaviour, which of course means diddly squat now. I’ve always had a lot of depression trouble, so I had nothing when I went into the marriage, and I had nothing when I came out. We were together for 18 months.
I began to do contract work, and (big mistake, this) my wife was my company secretary (which you must have if you operate a Limited Company). She asked the bank for a cheque book on my business account, and promptly emptied it. Almost 4K gone, my contract over so no more income for a while, and a VAT bill to pay somehow. This was right after I had CSA’s Read more
CSA system is so unfair to fathers who work
March 17, 2010
There are 2 sides to my story.. I have been trying to get maintenance for my 2 children since 1994, My ex husbands debt was regonised as being £21,000 in 1998, and i have kept every single letter the csa have ever sent me! In all this time he has been self employed and lived a very comfortable lifestyle, big house, nice car, horses.. The csa even visited him at home once and saw how he lived but after investigations i was told he had nil assessable income. ???? ( he had a good accountant ) i contacted them again recently as i hadnt heard from them for years and was told he only owed £14,000 ??? I was told that this will go to court and be regonised as a debt.. Every time i ring i am told the same story, this has been going on now for 15 wks.
How long does it take to gather paperwork together, I can supply them with every Read more
CSA are holding my money
March 17, 2010
My ex partner has been back at work since May2009. The CSA were informed by both myself and him of this but to date have failed to sort out my case, or give me a payment schedule. They are holding £308.88 of my money until their ‘calculations have been checked’ on what arrears I’m owed. Every time I call or complain I’m told its in the final stages and could take up to 8 weeks to be finalised…this 8 weeks seems to be a moving target. Its always 8 weeks from my phone call!
As far as my ex is concerned, he’s paying, but they are not passing it on to me.
Is there some other way to get justice as their own complaints proceedure doesn’t seem to get me anywhere!?!
CSA mistake will cost me my home
March 14, 2010
I was paying my parter standing order to the csa. I got a letter off the csa telling me they were starting to take money out of my wages. When asked why as ive missed no payment there could not tell me why.
They told me to stop my standing order. Which i did. As i told them this was unfair and that my parter had put court orders on me after i served paper on her to see my child. They told me to send in court order as i mite not have to pay. I did, they stopped taking money from wages.
Now ive got a letter saying i owe Read more
CSA and courts have let me down
March 13, 2010
1999 is when csa first became involved with my family.
i have 2 children and divorced their father at this time. he is highly unreliable so this is why i decided to involve the csa to ensure maintainance was recieved. however his current arrears stand at 30,000 pounds.
i have gone through the system so often i can tell the enforcement team what action will be taken next.but apart from the shambles of the csa the court system is also a major area of concern and a joke. 4 years ago after allowing my ex husbands debt to raise to 20,000 pounds we finally had a court hearing. my ex was informed by the judge to pay 50,00 a week from his 20 000 arrears and encouraged to pay his 45,00 regular maintainance.
my ex managed to pay this for a few months then again stopped paying anything. csa were aware of his default but Read more
CSA does not listen to my change in circumstances
March 12, 2010
I have a 7 year old boy, i was living alone and had contact with him 2-3 days a week. I then moved in with my girlfriend in Dec 2008 , she has a 9 year old daughter. I informed the CSA about my change in circumstance and they did NOTHING , my son then came to live with me full time in October 2009.
I informed the CSA and they did NOTHING! I was then granted full residency order by a UK court of law. I sent this info into the CSA and they did NOTHING, they keep trying to take 400 pounds out of my account every month , and are threatening me , i am at my wits end!!
Robert
CSA do not listen to me
March 11, 2010
it all started when i left a low paid job for what i got told was better pay so i did what ive allways done for the past 7 and half year i got in touch with the csa and gave them all the realivent information.
then next minute i was getting letters from them saying youve got till this date to corrisponed. then 2 days after i got another letter saying they where capping my wages 2 180pw. anything over that the csa was taking. i kept phoning and pleading with them just to listen and talking it all through with them but they didn’t want to listen. all they where bothered bout was what was on there screen.
out of the 180pw i had my rent and other bills and also had maintance 2 my other ex for my Read more
Why are we paying CSA when my kids get next to nothing?
March 10, 2010
let me start by saying the original CSA must have been the idear of a bitter ex wife, who thinks that the father dosent have the right to a new life or new family, and the new CSA are ignorant crooks who pull figures out there ass.
I,m sure anyone reading this will have guessed by now that i am the NRP new wife and mother to his other 3 children, well i say new wife we,ve been married 8 years.
let me tell you my story – the CSA affects the lives of everyone involved with it.
when i met my husband he was a young corpral in the army, he was paying his ex wife £500 per month, yes you saw that right £500 per month for 1 child, after the marrage ended becouse she had an affair, not only did she leave my husband in all the debt they had together but not being happy with that she took him Read more
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