Who regulates the CSA? They make up their own rules!

October 10, 2015

Contacting you on behalf of my boyfriend who is being hounded by the csa, or child maintenance service as they now call themselves. He split from his ex wife in or around 2001-2002, she told him she wanted him to have nothing to do with their twins (including any form of child maintenance), as her new man was to support them & bring them up like his own.

My boyfriend reluctantly agreed as he did not wish to jeopardise contact with his 2 sons. Some 13 years later the ex wife decides that she wants child maintenance & goes through csa. Boyfriend ignores it all for some time due to circumstances, building up arrears. Ultimately csa do a deo which runs for a few months at a time. Arrears have now risen due to their incompetence & they’re expecting him to pay 40% of his wages!!

He was made bankrupt in July 2015 & has a low income & can barely survive thanks to the csa arrears. We are currently trying to get them to let him pay a reduced amount on the arrears. Ideally we would like the arrears deferred for a couple of years & only pay the child maintenance due as this would just about be manageable. They don’t appear to be regulated by anyone & make up their own rules! Can we take this back to the Magistrates Court & appeal the amount of the deo?

Thank you in advance for any help you can suggest or offer. Boyfriend currently feeling suicidal due to this as it was bad enough for him to do the bankruptcy.

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