Mother stopped access so I pay more to the CSA
The best interests of the children should be decided by a panel of people, both male and female who assess both parents circumstances to maximise and enrich the childrens lives at the same time ensuring stability for the parents livelihood and quality of life at a sensible level.
Should at the very least put this responsibility back with magistrates, at least both parties can explain their own unique set of circumstances and secure reasonable contact at the same time
I’m a NRP, father of 2, only seen 1 daughter once and another daughter once a fortnight. This is not out of choice but by the PWC. This in itself ensures I pay maximum CSA maintenance and she knows this. I’m paying 300 a month plus a mortgage she refuses to contribute to but is demanding 85% of the equity.
The above is not about the children, its about making money out of broken relationships and making a bad situation an even bigger tragedy and its ruining lives for both parents and children.
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18 Mar 2008 No Arrears plus letter from CSa confirming same
11 Nov 2008 £1161 arrears!
18 Nov 2008 £1227.61 arrears!!
29 Apr 2009 £3151.03 arrears!!!
Feb 2005
Case began Feb 2005, agreement between both solicitors at time was I would pay £400 per month to ex wife for child maintenance until CSA got their assessment completed, dealt with in Court.
Jun 2005
A dispute developed between CSA and I when they suggested that I had amassed arrears in the region of £1500. After many lengthy conversations between my ex wife and CSA and including letters from both parties solicitors at the time the CSA then removed this amount from the account, I was told! (Michelle CSA). Payments were set at £414 per month
Jun 2006
After many months of telephone conversation ‘Shared Care’ kicked in and my payments were reduced by CSA to £360.
Mar 2008
All was content for many months until my ex during a financial settlement was seeking financial support from me and she made a claim in Court that I wasn’t paying her full CSA. I contacted the CSA on the 14 Mar 2008 to clarify the situation and according to their records, I was fully paid up to date, paying the correct amount and there were no arrears.
Within the next few months of this, I don’t know when, my ex had denied receiving £400 per month from me that I was initially paying before the CSA got their calculations completed, I was contacted by CSA again saying I owed them £1227. I forwarded the letter I had received from the CSA dated 18 Mar 2008 and I was told by CSA that the letter was incorrect and I should not have received it and they also said that I should have been paying £414.
I pointed out the fact that I had paid the amount requested by CSA after they had done their ‘Shared Care’ calculation. Again I was told by the CSA I was incorrect. I stuck to what I was told to pay by the CSA which included ‘Shared Care’ and they stuck by their story that every thing I received from they prior they said was incorrect and denied that anyone within CSA had ever told me to pay £360 based on ‘Shared Care’.
Sep2008
The CSA applied a DOE for their amount to come from my wages including the arrears they added.
Nov 2008
One of my sons moved in with me on a full time basis, I contacted the CSA and they completed a further DOE with a reduction for my son living with me.
However the dispute over the arrears continued and I was going round in circles, never getting the same person twice.
Apr2009
I decided to go the small claims court and a date was set on the 29 Apr 2009. I met up with representatives of the CSA, they assured me that ‘no way did I owe any arrears and that they would personally see that this would be sorted out. I took them at their word and the case didn’t go ahead.
29 Apr 2010
Upon my return home from the court in my house was a letter from the CSA saying I owed them £3151. I made contact with Allen Mills and he assured me it was all a mistake that it was now in their Scotland office and he would sort it out and don’t worry about it.
From that day to now I’ve going round in circles with the CSA.
Data Protection Act 1998
May 2009
In the mean time I got all my information from the CSA under the Data Protection Act and its clear from the information within those documents that they knew the initials payments of £400 per month had been paid as my ex had actually told them they were being paid monthly on May 2005.
Also it was well documented that I had been told to pay £360 per month based on ‘Shared Care’. I know this started on the 17th May 2006 as I’ve written this at work however despite a second request for information under the Data Protection Act, I haven’t received this notification I received by phone from Phyllis Watson at CSA. Further to this, I requested a Direct Debit form and they posted this out to me with the value on it of £360.
I paid the CSA what I was told to pay, because of someone’s mess I got stung with arrears from somewhere.
During all this wrangling, I’ve received 2 separate payments (May 2009, £100 & 2 Dec 2009 £75) from CSA for ‘maladministration’ but in no way would this compensate for being treated as a liar, having a DOE imposed on me, the time and expense in dealing with the CSA which seems to be a bottomless pit of individuals and the stress and strain they cause isnt worth it.