Confidential Information or Not

Is information in the form E confidential or can I use it to dispute my ex's declaration to the CSA
She says that she is earnining less than £100 per week but her estimated future costs are £244 per week.
Now I know that she works full time cash in hand but of course the CSA will only use her statement for the calculation.
Can I use her own submission to the court that soemthing doesn't add up here.

Do you pay child mainetenance to your wife or is it the other way around?

If you are the one paying child maintenance it makes no difference how much she is earning - they work out contributions based on your salary only.

If she is the one paying child maintenance to you then I would contact the CSA and use the court document as your starting point for a re-calculation.

The only thing to remember is that they will not take into account 'future' earnings only positive ones right now that have she's liable to pay tax on.

Reason being is that anything could happen that could change circumstances in the future so those earnings are not set in stone.

T

She is the one paying the maintenance. Based on the investigator's report that I intigated I estimate that she is earning £16000 to £18000 per annum and that is all tax and NIC free so the equivalent of about £20000 per annum.
She told the CSA that she earns less than £100 per week but then tells the court that her monthly outgoings are £1000 per month.

Divorcing spouses are under a duty in E&W to use information given in proceedings for the purposes of the proceedings only and there are restrictions on disclosing information. When the rules don't allow it strictly speaking disclosing information to third parties is contempt of court.

Trevor53 wrote:

She told the CSA that she earns less than £100 per week but then tells the court that her monthly outgoings are £1000 per month.

Then my advice would be to do the same as me. Raise it as a variation to look at her expenditure not working in conjunction with her income and then keep pushing it through with them to tribunal.

As the lady from the csa said to me about my ex if she's only earning £100 a week and she's living in a £250k house with mortgage and still affording a new car and 3 holidays a year then something doesn't add up.

Good luck!

T

So Fiona, if I were to discover that my stbx is funding his girlfriend's car through his business as a 'company car' but that she's not on payroll and he's not able to produce any kind of mileage log for the car, I technically couldn't report this to the HMRC as tax fraud? Or indeed that he's doing the same with his own car? Or that he's taking about 3 times what he earns on his P60 from the business (petrol, groceries in particular but also the purchase of white goods and I suspect credit card minimum payments....) so the child maintenance calculation is 3 times less than what it could be I can't give that info to the CSA?

If I were to pass on this info, what could he do about it? Would this not be a case of a judge turning a blind eye because, after all, it's avoiding paying tax (albeit in small sums, I admit but avoidance nonetheless) or could I find myself prosecuted?