Stopping Contact to gain more CSA Money

I have had my daughter every other weekend for the past year. During this time I have paid the mortgage (no CSA). We went to court last week for the FDR (we are already divorced) and she has been told to continue to live in the house but take over the mortgage. Now I have a letter from the CSA with the full 100% bill, my wife states that I do not have daughter at all. I explained that the I have my daughter every other weekend but they say they have to take ex wife word for it. How is this fair? I will raise an court access order however this could take weeks?

Sorry to hear you are having some issues.

You can put the CMS claim into dispute and you will then need to provide evidence that you do indeed have your daughter when you say you do. A member called WYSPECIAL is very good at CSA/CMS issues.

Is the dispute just over child support, or is there also a dispute over parenting time? A court order (child arrangments order) won''t solve the current CMS issues, it will set out where your child will live, with whom, and when she is to spend time with the other parent (you). This won''t take weeks, but months, I''m afraid, and is not a simple solution.

When I phoned them to tell them about the change in arrangements and currently no over nights but that is court ordered, they told me that they would have to ring stbx to confirm this, then they rang me about an hour later to confirm that they had spoken to him and that it was correct

The issue is that I have my daughter every other weekend FRI - SUN (2 over night stays) and have done for the last 15 months.
This means my CSA bill should be reduced by a seventh. My ex has said that I don''t have my daughter full stop. Therefore I do not have the reduction. I spoke to ex wife and she said "I want as much money as I can out of you so from now on you are not seeing your daughter". My ex wife also has refused mediation so I have my FM1 form and have raised a court access order. But until the CSA has the court order stating I will have my daughter every other weekend they will not reduce my CSA bill. Its so annoying.

So your ex has now stopped contact all-together? When did this happen?

I think the focus needs to be on re-establishing your daughter''s usual times with you as soon as possible, and then dealing with the child support issue.

My wife stopped contact the day after the FDR court case solely on the basis of she wants more CSA money. Therefore I have been to mediation (which she refuses) so I have the FM1 form and have filled in the C100 form and sent it to court for a court order to be raised. My main focus is obviously regaining contact with my daughter but I cant do anything until it goes to court. On top of this she gets extra CSA for stopping me .... unbelievable

Contact issues can move quickly, especially if there are no known issues for them not to. Although if your wife is the lying type she could always make up some false allegations to slow things down.

Do you have proof of her stopping contact? A text or an email.. ? This always helps substantaite your claim

Best case- 1 month. Once you have this you can send it to CMO for verification.

Worst case... it can drag on for a loooong time.

Good luck