Man hit with £34,000 bill by the Child Support Agency
May 26, 2011
A man, who only found out that he fathered a son thirteen years later, is being ordered to pay £34,000 to the Canadian Child Support Agency by the courts.
Adrian Haddon, 37, of Bowness Avenue in Thornton, said he was completely stunned when Lancashire police arrested him on the orders of Canadian officials where his son lives. They are claiming that he owes a total of £34,402 in Read more
Father attacked by CSA worker
May 22, 2011
Hard working and loving father, Garry Roe, was drumming up support yesterday in Nottingham for a demo against the Child Support Agency, to be held on June 19th (Father’s Day) outside MP Ken Clarke’s house.
While Garry was handing out flyers in Nottingham, dressed in his usual Batman costume (to protect his secret identity) he was attacked by a member of the Child Support Agency, who tried to grab his camera from him.
This photo shows the attempted assault on Garry, where a manager at the CSA was clearly angry at Garry’s peaceful display of flyers and posters.
The police even attended the fracas, and instructed Garry to delete this photo. Luckily Garry knew his rights, and you are entitled to take photographs in a public place (as this was, in the town centre) and we are also allowed to publish this photo as copyright is owned by the photographer.
This is another example of how the CSA operates, and how they believe they are above the law.
The demo is on the 19th June. You can also see a short video of this woman, where one of her colleagues shouts ‘You Pay’ at Garry, slandering him in public about his responsibilities towards his daughter, right here.
Unmarried property rights dispute
May 19, 2011
A woman is challenging a decision that has been passed down from the Court of Appeal which gave her partner an equal amount in the house that they share, even though they were not married.
Mr Kernott and Miss Jones started their relationship in 1980. Miss Jones, 5 years later, then put down capital for a bungalow in Essex. They never married but had two children together. They shared the mortgage for 8 years until the couple separated and Mr Kernott moved out and started to rent another property.
Miss Jones decided to stay in the property for the next 13 years. She made all appropriate Read more
Schwarzenegger’s marriage terminated due to secret love child
May 18, 2011
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 25 year marriage has collapsed after revelations emerged that he fathered a secret love child a decade ago.
The star, who has 4 children with wife Maria Shriver, hid the secret from his family for 10 years before admitting to her that he had fathered a child with a woman who was in his employment at the time, resulting in the end of his marriage.
Sources close to the star claim that Schwarzenegger paid the woman regularly to support the child and to buy Read more
Banker in court over child maintenance dispute
May 15, 2011
A well-known Scottish Banker is being taken to court by his ex-wife over a dispute about how much child support he is paying for his daughter.
Bernard Higgins, 50, chief executive at Tesco Bank, and has had previous positions at RBS and HBOS, is arguing that the £3,000 a month should be enough for his 11 year old daughter, but his former wife is taking the dispute to court.
Mr Higgins changed the amount of support that he was giving to his daughter after Read more
CSA forced to pay out more than £17 million in compensation to parents
May 14, 2011
The Child Support Agency has been forced to pay parents more than £17 million pounds in compensation because of a delay, administrative blunders, or from lost interest. The figures are from the last 5 years from the financial year April 2006-April 2011.
The report, which contained all of the facts and statistics, was released in a parliamentary written answer received by the Liberal Democrat MP Duncan Hames.
There were almost 65,000 consolatory payments that had to be made to parents in the past 5 years. This resulted in around £17.6 million having to be paid back. The average payout for a claim that a parent had made in the last five Read more
Baby Blues for Blue’s Lee Ryan
May 13, 2011
Blue singer Lee Ryan has been heavily criticised for failing to pay child maintenance for his daughter, despite a promise saying that he would support her when she was born.
Lee Ryan, who is representing Britain in the Eurovision song contest this weekend with Blue, has had very little contact with his daughter since she was born. When he found out about the pregnancy he vowed that he would take care of his daughter after Read more
CSA claims stable performance to the end of a year
May 13, 2011
The Child support Agency had a stable end to the financial year, finishing with another successful quarter, according to its most recent press release.
Most statistics had a positive increase that will help the Child Support Agency take a step in the right direction. According to the release from the CSA, in the year to March:
“a total of £1,150 million was collected or arranged by the Agency – up from £1,146m in the year Read more
CSA makes errors in demanding money totalling £25 million
May 12, 2011
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission has not had their accounts for the past two years signed because of the level of errors in maintenance assessments.
Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, refused to sign-off the accounts because of the number of errors that were present in them. In 2009-10 the agency demanded £10m too much from absent fathers, to be paid to the mothers, and £14.4m too little from others. The watchdog has also highlighted concerns about the “truth and fairness” and the level of arrears that has been ran up by the Child Support Agency because of the “level of error” in its data.
The CMEC claims that £3.964 billion is still owed by absent parents. The spending watchdog disputes that Read more
Kerry Katona’s money woes continue
May 11, 2011
Kerry Katona’s money struggles look set to continue as her ex-husband, Mark Croft, has been ordered to pay just £1.66 per week in child support for each child. The Child Support Agency is said to have fixed the fee as Croft claimed that he was only earning £75 a week by working in a cafe.
It has been alleged that, while Croft is only paying the small sum of £1.66, he is still driving around in an A4 Audi convertible with a personalised license plate and still likes to takes frequent trips to the Canary Islands. Croft, who Read more
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