Paying for mistakes made by the CSA

if my name is not on birth certificate should I have to pay csa direct from my wages. I am no longer with ex was not for 5 months before baby born dont know if even mine.

the CSA is a capitol tax on men that work....i have been paying from day one..then through thei inability to work out how much I should pay I found out I was in arears of 9 mnth.hefty sum I might add,but it was not my fault of their short commins.if u do have problems chaps ask to be put through to the legal dapartment,at least they dont bounce u abck and forth and u end up spending half ure day talkin to sum man hating slut that has just broke up with her boyfriend....

MY CASE HAS TO BEAT THEM ALL.
My on and off girlfriend at the time falls pregnant, we split up after she decides to put ( farther unknown) on the birth certificate (for benefit reasons) she later explained.
We lived appart but I work and give her money for the child every month.
About 3 years later she decides to call the CSA and tell them that she now knows who the farther is and that they should make me pay her some money.
They contacted me and informed me that an investigation had been carried out ( Hey??? What???investigation???) and that they had come to the conclution that I hadn´t assisted financially for my daughter (WRONG) and owed them about 4.000 pounds for benefits paid to the mother of my child.
It´s now 10 years passed and she is still on benefits, has never worked and I still refuse to pay the CSA, my daughtres money ( I pay it direct to my daughter, which doesnt count as its classed as a gift) I now owe the CSA 10.000 pounds more or less.
Unfortunately for them i´m in the south of Spain,and have been for the last three years so they cant touch my wages here,
I have asked them if we could come to some arrangement on the figure owed (which I disagree with) and how I can pay it back. " NO SIR, we would expect 40 % of your monthly earnings, to clear your outstandin balance " Needless to say I told them I couldn´t afford that.
He replied " sorry theres nothing we can do to help you," Erm " Oh well there is one thing" (YES!!!! at last we are getting somewhere) "If you could make a lump payment to reduce the over all debt by a substational amount we would consider taking less than the 40% of your earnings a month" LOL (i actually did laugh out loud) and told the guy " alright, brilliant, Thanks and hung up.

Signed

Will Power

Here a good one....28 yrs together, now divorcing with 18 yr old daughter about to go to University. Wife totally unreasonable, venmous and more importantly financially irresponsible. Ive already paid a lump to my daughter direct to her account and still have them chasing me for the rest till 19.....best bit though is they have both returned to my house and CSA will not let me pay balance direct to daughter (Yes the one that voted this year) as mum is alledgedly responsible for her still? Ist "The Law" apparently so I have to pay CSA who give it to???.....I could go on but feel depressed enough today. The whole thing needs shaking down and some reasonableness applied to redress the obvious imbalanceand complete absence of common sense and true justice.....hopefully it will happen as part of the Government cuts!

My CSA case is very old, I still paying for my Children who are now 22,26 and 28. according to Fairfax Solicator this is for money that own when I was paying the CSA, despite the the fact the most years I had a zero rating. I own fairfax £7,220 which I do have and they keep asking for more I have maintain my payment to themand simply cannot afford any more.. Is there anywhere where I can recieve free help on this matter.. Its is urgent because I could land up without anywhere to live...

Hello I would like to set up a regular meetings to be held at a venue in Leeds on the evening time if you are intrested then please contact me on safdin@virgin.net thank you.This could help all parents involved with a bad divorce or the CSA etc.

Are there any CSA legal people outhere who know and understand the Law when it involves the CSA????

do we have a legal system, we are all at the end of the line wen as they say we are above the law the csa I mean . me im to much of a coward to top myself unfotunatly so many have and wat is said about that nothung just another goverment cover up, is ther anyone in the legal system got the balls to take the csa on actually make reforms for the benifit of all male and female lets not forget those who have lost there lives to this

The CSA have got better powers than the police, think about it, the Coservatives came up with them in 1993, they gave them the power to deduct all this money off the men, to hand over to the mostly "don't have to go to work i'm a single mum club" (and then call it child support)

Ive just got a bill for 16k from the CSA its the first ive heard ever? theve attached my bank acount for a monthky figure that is more than ive been earning recently can they actually just do this??

New system, don't make me laugh, I've got a letter from the CSA advising a change to a fairer system dated October 2000, which will be 'retrospectively implemented' when the Government has confirmed it is 'working satisfactorily', how long do they need?

I, despite my ex having me over a barrel regard access etc, would pay what I thought was a reasonable amount for the welfare of my children, regardless of the CSA/CEMEC or whatever it calls itself this week. But because I dared to work hard and get a bether than averaged paid job I was assessed at 32% of my monthly salary (I have come across cases of ex partners paying 40%+!) and I'm supposed to live on what's left (leaving very little to put towards things that are beneficial to my children).

From my own experience don't bother writing to your MP, because if he/she is anything like mine you'll just get fobbed off. Also applying for a departure is a waste of time/risky because in the case of the former the CSA rulebook always has a get out of jail free card that will ensure any variation is less than £10 (hence no change) and in the case of the latter they may use it as an excuse to review your case and extort more money from you!

Finally, How is it fair that the income of a new partner is not taken into account and even if it was tax credit limits would make it exempt up to a joint income of 79999 due to the link between the CSA's calculations and benefit thresholds?

I am assesed on the "old scheme" and the CSA take no cogisance of the overnight stay they have with me.
My new wife's ex husband is assesed on the "New scheme" and gets a reduction in the amount he pays for the one night sleep over.
The CSA have ran dual schemes for 8 years and have recently wrote to me via my MP telling me it will be a further two years before there will be a single system.
How can this be fair ?
For 10 years I will have paid more than A N Other by my calculation cica £18,000