Can we have the child support backdated?
Cant seem to find the answer to my questions anywhere else so hope someone can advise me.
I divorced in Jan 2000 and my ex paid child support for a couple of years and then suddenly stopped. No reason, just didn’t want to pay.
The CSA could not chase him for the money because he was hardly ever in the country as he worked all over the world and was never in one place long enough for them to catch him. This wasnt helped by the fact that he has always been self employed.
He has now married again (No4) and has set up home in England he still works away a lot but he is actually living in England at a registered address.
Having struggled and worked all these years bringing our daughter up alone I have had to sell our home as the debts piled up over time.
My daughter is now 21 but I want to know can I get the owed child support back dated now that they can contact him ? If so how ?
He earns a very very good wage and can certainly afford it.
Information on this sort of case is very hard to find on the internet so maybe you can help many other people as well as helping me.
Thanks for your time.
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You wont be able to do this with the CSA, I suggest getting legal advice, but if you cant get legal aid it will cost, can try pro bono, Good luck.
The CSA will do nothing to help you (as it would involve them investigating and that would mean actual work)… Absent fathers like your ex always seem to get away with it and its the decent NRPs who already pay that get targeted to help the CSA meet their targets and get their bonus…
NACSA is a really good website for information but given the age of your daughter, your options might be limited… :/
If he left the country he may be considered out of jurisdiction for that period of time. In this instance the likelihood is the case may have been closed, or at best suspended until he returned. This would mean he wasn’t liable to pay for the child whilst out of the country therefore no backdated pay. The only way to know for definite is to speak to an advisor who has the details of the case and the circumstances under which he left the country.
If the case was closed as a result of him leaving the country, there would be no way to reopen now she’s over 20 and liability ended when he moved out of jurisdiction so no arrears would’ve been accrued.
The only way he would still owe you would be if he owed arrears before he left the country (case would’ve been suspended – not closed due to outstanding debt) and now that he’s back in the country (within jurisdiction) there’s a possibility that the agency could chase him up to collect the outstanding arrears.
I would double check with an advisor to be sure.
My case was closed a couple of years ago but my ex owes over £3000 in backdated payments…….he’s been paying in drips and drabs but always claims he’s on benefit, where they can’t touch him,……. Although all the time I was with him he worked “cash in hand” and earned quite a bit……( dodging the tax man as well)….. Although the kids are now grown up they could do with a little financial help and the well overdue arrears would help them, as he’s done absolutely nothing else to help since he left.Is there anything at all that can be done to force him to pay his overdue arrears , …court orders or anything like that? It’s a very unfair world, and the CSA have not bee very helpful in chasing him, in fact it is always me who contacts them to try and push things along, but I always get the same pathetic answer…… He’s on benefit we can’t do anything……… He must be made to pay his arrears in full,…… Sell something, get a loan……anything…….. Or we will be dead and he will have got away with not contributing to his children. This needs to be addressed and he needs to be made to pay, NOW.