Maurice Barnett in the Blackpool Gazette
June 24, 2008
Maurice Barnett of the Dead Beat Dads association managed to get some coverage for his plight, and his fight against the CSA in the Blackpool Gazette.
Thirty-Seven year old Maurice is a dad of three kids from Thornton and wishes to help like minded fathers who are battling with the CSA. Maurice believes that the tactics used by the Child Support Agency are too harsh, leaving many fathers unable to cope with the pressure and financial burdens.
In a similar story with many fathers battling the CSA, Maurice was left feeling depressed and facing repossession on his home.
Maurice says:
We want a fairer system set-up.
Any man’s rights have been completely eroded away. You could pay your ex-wife cash-in-hand for six years, fall out and she can contact the CSA who demand you pay it all again.
When they get involved, fathers are losing contact with their children.
Fathers are moving out of the home, paying for their children and then being told their bedsit isn’t appropriate or they can’t afford to pick up their children.
It’s true that the CSA cause fathers to lose contact with their children, because they reward the mothers financially for cutting the fathers out entirely. The mothers get more money if the father doesn’t have access to his children. A father who sees his children regularly and has overnight contact with them has to pay less, so obviously mothers are refusing access.
The system has completely missed the point of keeping family’s in touch.
Maurice has founded the organisation together with his partner, Sherri. She says about the Dead Beat Dads:
MPs up and down the country are being bombarded with calls for help from fathers.
We hear the CSA are asking non-resident fathers what is the limit on your credit card? Can you remortgage your house? Just to get people to settle their arrears.
They are telling people they shouldn’t have had a second family.
The CSA gave the same standard response they always give, completely missing the point again:
Every parent has a financial responsibility for their child.
We look at each case individually to ensure the correct maintenance assessment is made.
This isn’t about securing money for the CSA but about recovering money for those children who are owed it.
The Child Support Agency need to realise the damage they are doing to families, and in particular to children.
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Thanks for that Mike, would just like to say we have been inundated now with calls and emails from NRPs and NRPPs who thought they were up against the CSA on their own. IWehave this week sorted three cases out, prevented one guy from taking his own life, this was done by Sherris counselling skills and made his life a whole lot easier by setting up a payment plan to help him pay his bills and also stopped creditors from harrasing him.
The Association now has an in house counsellor built in to it, so as well as being an Association, we are a support group who can help sort other avenues of the NRP/NRPPs probles out due to the draconian actions of the CSA.
Please feel free to let other people know about us, I am now in the process of adding more stuff to the Associations web site and I now have some good loop holes for NRP who are self employed and who are summonsed to court for failing to furnish the CSA with their details.
Any other questions please feel free to join us and come and have a look at the forum too
Mobey