Escaping the Dreaded CSA

I was wondering if anyone had gone through the process of going to court to Voluntarily Relinquish Parental Responsibility.

I dont see my son and I have not seen him since he was born. he is 8 now. I let his mother get on with things.

Does anyone no how much this costs to apply for? is it true that it stops your ex getting any money from you once and for all?

I am due an inheritance and ive been told that this would mean she or my so would have no legal claim to anything I have.

I cant afford legal aid and I asked my ex if she was ok with the idea and she said yes.

You can''t avoid child maintenance payments. Apart from the courts rarely revoking Parental Responsibility even those without PR are still liable to pay child maintenance if the parent with the majority of care for a child makes a claim through they CSA/Child Maintenance Service. Therefore relinquishing PR won''t stop child maintenance.

Under the CSA 2003 rules the basic amount of child maintenance can be varied to take account of capital the "non resident parent" has in excess of £65k (apart from their home). Alternatively under the 2012 CMS rules unearned income from income subject to income tax from property, savings, investments and other miscellaneous sources is converted into a weekly amount and added to the paying parent''s gross earnings before the usual child maintenance calculation is made.

Sorry, i have to have a pop, i hope you don''t get offended:
the day you fathered this child (that means the day you decided to have to sex with his mother, because, protection or not, sh*t happens) that''s when you took responsibility for a new life, and that means supporting it, whether you see him or not.

Your duty towards that child doesn''t change. You don''t pay child maintenance to allow contact with a person, paying for contact is what you do in Amsterdam in the red light district. You pay because he is your child and you have a duty to maintain him, and it doesn''t matter what type of child he is, with or without contact, with or without all his abilities, with or without a need to see you and love you as his father.

Sorry if you feel offended, just a bit tired.