CSA and courts have let me down
1999 is when csa first became involved with my family.
i have 2 children and divorced their father at this time. he is highly unreliable so this is why i decided to involve the csa to ensure maintainance was recieved. however his current arrears stand at 30,000 pounds.
i have gone through the system so often i can tell the enforcement team what action will be taken next.but apart from the shambles of the csa the court system is also a major area of concern and a joke. 4 years ago after allowing my ex husbands debt to raise to 20,000 pounds we finally had a court hearing. my ex was informed by the judge to pay 50,00 a week from his 20 000 arrears and encouraged to pay his 45,00 regular maintainance.
my ex managed to pay this for a few months then again stopped paying anything. csa were aware of his default but refused to take action until this year. in february 2010 my ex husband jf luton appeared before a magistrate in gloucester. i was expecting a custodial sentence due to his deliberate non payment. how wrong i was to expect justic. my ex was allowed to walk away from the court being advised he had to pay 5.00 a week off his 20,000 pound arrears; the magistrate seems to have conviently forgotten the other 10,000 pound arrears he had built up due to non pay ment of regular maintainance.
how long is it going to take these arrears to be paid off? the magistrate is welcome to change places with me and struggle to bring up 2 children with no financial support from their biological father; what can we do the csa need a total shake up and the court system need to understand the real world’ child poverty is supposed to be frowned on in this country but with our legal system as it is it never will be. i am so angry that my children have been so badly let down by the whole system put in place to help them.
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Prison is no place for a parent refusing to financially assist the raising of their children. It is for people who are a menace and danger to society in general. Non payers of CM are not.
Hi jane,
Like so many other parents, the CSA have failed with your case.
It appears the court case 4 years in respect of £20k was a hearing for a Liability Order? – if so, it wasnt necessarily inclusive of the date leading right up to the hearing.
The other £10k may have been accrued since, but is another matter and will not be included in the initial amount of debt.
Please also be aware that if a penalty assessment is in place, it may well be inflating the amount of the arrears and these can be converted into proper assessments.
You need to establish what actually has been happening with your case and how the agency have processed it – have you at any point made a complaint?
Jane, please go to the facebook groups child support agency failings and others as you will see I and others have posted our stories on their but also I have posted on there how I got an Advance Payment of a lot of money after getting 9 special payments also. I have also posted on here suggestions in what I did to get at least half the money I was owed and still trying to get the system changed and also the rest of the money I believe is owed to my children by way of the criminal compliance unit who found out how much he really earnt and had in savings therefore showing his accounts were incorrect and so a new maf should be done and backdated for the correct amount of maintenance that he can and should have paid to support his children and also due to the amount of fraud he has committed, criminal proceedings against him.
I hope none of you smoke dope. That is illegal you know.
Pay all your taxes and declare all income??
If you agree with every word of the law and follow it then fine if not your are a hypocrite. And remember it doesn’t matter what you believe morally or believe to be common sense as the law is the law.
You had the kid live with it. Stop being a victim all you life and always depend on others because fankly i don’t care and by the sounds of it neither does the guy in question.