No way can a supposed single mum cry poverty!

CSA is a blunt instrument and sometimes it leaves the parent with the majority of care with less income than the other parent and vice versa. Does your ex pay for any child care? By my calculation if you are paying CSA rates you earn about £2.2k/month net and deducting CM leaves you with £1.95k or £450 less than her. If your ex pays for the bulk of clothing, school trips, child care etc there may not be such a huge discrepancy in the amount left to cover housing, bills and food.


In any case if you consider matters on a a pro rata basis when you divide your income by 3 for the three days you have the children it works out at £650 whereas if you divide your ex''s income by 4 for the days the children stay with her it is £600.

PS

it''s a pity the nazi child maintenance division don''t listen.

Have you never heard of Godwins Rule?

I just came back to this post. LOL for the Godwins Rule. I still h8 the CSA.

I smell bullshit lol

I know exactly what you mean. I have shared residence of my two children whome i have for 47% of the year. My ex used to get both CB, tax credits and high rate DLA for my eldest son. Her income was as follows:
Two kids.

Over £674 / month child tax credits
£146 / month Child Benefit
£1520/ month working 23 hours per week.
£570/ month DLA for eldest son.

Total £2910 / mth approx.

She lives in a council house, rent is £415 per month, council tax is £120 per month, which left her £2375 per month.

I on the other hand take home £1220 per month, rent is £750 and council tax is £90 per month, which left me £380 per month to live off.
She also wanted £260 per month from me for child maintenence which i refused to pay. I pay for alot of the activities they do, buy school clothes and leisure clothes, pay for their food, do their washing, keep a roof over their heads for half the week etc etc.
The shared residence ordre started in aug 2011, and after various attempts by me asking her to split the benefits that were available for the children and her refusing, i contacted the CB office in feb 2012 and after a four month investigation, in june of 2012, they awarded me the CB for my disabled son, plus i was awarded the DLA for him too. When we attended the financial resolution hearing in august, my barrister put a proposal to her that the finances stay as they are.......and she didnt even realise that for the previous two months that she hadnt received the DLA!!!! She stormed out of court, immediately contacted the benefits agency and again, the CB and DLA was suspended pending an investigation. In jan of this year, i heard again that i was to receive the CB and DLA along with the backdated amount, but i still wait with baited breath each month to see if those payments have gone in to my bank account. I never know if she has contacted them again to ask for an appeal etc. She still receives the tax credits for both children.
We are due back to court in april for a final hearing on the finances and i would like things to remain as they are, with a Clean Break, purely for the financial stability of the children but she just wont agree to anything.
As it stands at the moment she has an income of £2280 per month with rent and CT of £535 per month leaving her £1749 per month.
I receive £1220 per month salary, CB and DLA plus HB etc of £1000 pm totalling £2220pm, rent and CT of £840pm, leaving me £1380 per month.
This obviously results in parity of the incomes resulting in the children having a standard of living in both of their homes.
She still wants all of the state benefits that are available for the children along with maintenence from me in order to maintain her lifestyle, holidays to Australia every two years, buy nice clothes etc etc, but she simply cannot see whats important to our children.
Only the court will be able to decide what is fair. I just hope that they dont decide to award everything bvack to her again, otherwise my children and i are B*gg***d.