csa wanting more money!!!

Hi all,

My husband has 2 children from a previous marriage who has always paid csa to his ex partner has been very limited into us having contact with the children now we have not seen them for nearly 3 months and now recieved a letter from the csa to say that we have to send last 5 months pay slips as our circumstances has changed so now as the children do not come anymore the csa will now go up and still not seeing the children

We have been to courts numerous times and his ex agrees to everything whilst the judge is there but then contact dwindles away also had numerous visits with cafcass so don't want to be going tdown that road again...

Any advice???

Hi

There is no connection between contact and the csa and it is almost like a double whammy, that mum can stop contact and then the csa increases... sad, but that is the way it is.

Good luck with it.

Amanda

The issues are separate but related.

1. CSA.

Continue with the assessment, you have no choice.

2. Contact.

If there has been a contact order made then that order should be adhered to by both parties. If the ex is breaching that order then write to her/her solicitor immediately pointing out that there is a court order in place that has been made in the child's best interests. You have not agreed to any unilateral changes and request that contact is re-instated immediately in lines with teh court order or you will seek enforcement of the order.

see how that goes.

If no joy then return the matter back to court for enforcement. Depending on how old the order is, you will need either a C2 form (if the order is 12 months old or less), a C78/C79 form (if the order was made after 8 Dec 2008), or a C1 form as it will be treated as a fresh application.

A court ORDER is just that - an order, not a suggestion!

when I was with my ex partner, he did five weeks of limited time, ie no overtime and send them into the CSA. It was only then that they assessed him as he should have been assessed.

They were taking 55% of his wages at the time, we nearly went bankrupt. His ex was 'nasty'. But it finally brought him down to what he should have been paying. Never got our money back though. CSA are crap and always will be.

He used to phone them all the time saying that he paid too much. They never listened, so he had to bring his wages down.

It was only about 3 months before he was due to stop paying that they got it right.

all that money in her pocket, not the childs. The child knew too

Actually if the order is on or after 8 December it will have a warning notice attached and the form for enforcement is C79. If the order predates 8 December C78 is an application for a warning notice to be attached to the order which is required before applying for an enforcement order. For new applications the form is now C100.