Money back from the CSA
May 29, 2008
I have just found out through DNA testing that my daughter is not my biological daughter. She is 10 years old and I have been paying maintenance through the CSA for the last 5 years. They say I am not entitled to my money back from them even though I now have a legal test and decleration of non-parentage. Is this the case, or am I entitled to my money back?
Thank you for your help.
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That’s awful, but sadly I expect the CSA are hiding behind their own rules again. Remember they make the rules, they can say what they like. Chances are you agreed originally that you were responsible for the child, without a DNA test. The CSA will then say that you willingly accepted responsibility for the child, even though she wasn’t yours.
You could take a legal case against them, but to be honest I think they’d just tie you up in red tape for years.
You should not have been paying, they owe you that money. But I doubt very much they’ll give it to you. It’s just another example of how they’re a law unto themselves and they need to be broken apart and started again from scratch.