CSA re-assessment

Hi
I have just had a re-assessment and I'm now being told to pay another £200 a month making about £750!!!!
My ex already gets £225 spousal maintenance.

I have no objection paying for my kids (13 & 16) which I have done since 2001 but I have them regularly, pay for holidays, maintain bedrooms in my house for them otherwise I could downsize?

I have appealed.

Why can't I go onto the new system which seems to suggest using their calculator I'd be paying about £200 a month.

Interestingly using the CSA calculator under pre 2003 rules suggests that my payments would only increase by about £100!

Have they got it wrong?

Does anyone else pay as much as me?

I can't tell you if they've got it wrong because that requires having all the info, but CSA errors are common. Double check carefully.

Do you get any relevant reductions for having the children more than 52/104 nights a year, if applicable?

Such a large increase in CSA maintenance is very probably grounds for considering an application to reduce spousal maintenance. Court tends to look at your overall liability so its worth looking at.

You can't switch between CSA systems of calculation unless you meet the criteria for doing so: I know its mad, but its the law. Worth looking at the small print to find out if there is any way of getting onto the later system.

Hi and thanks for your reply.

I have spoken to my ex who says she hasn't been asked to supply any information to the csa apart from confirming my sons college course details. Should they not have asked her to supply details of her earnings? I 'believe' she claims various benefits but I don't know what they are. She has a mortgage of her own and I know she does work I just don't know at what.
As for the spousal maintainence which comes to and end when she Dies, Co Habits or Re marries I believe she is co habiting and in any case I thought it was based on her 'needs'?
I'm ranting now but I'm so angry as I have always looked after my kids and provided everything for them possible, taken them on hoiday and kept a 3 bedroom house so they have room to stay. I have them on average 80- 90 nights a year (so not above the 104 they state on the pre 2003 system)
It makes me simply want to drop out and leave everything behind as it seems totally unfair and way too biased in favour of her. She is an adult and has te abiity and time to work and develop to stand on her own two feet.
I'll stop now!