Fathers, contact with children and the CSA
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I received a call from CSA today saying my partner had asked them to contact me for child support payments.  Now as a father I have no problem paying for my children but the situation I find myself in is the reason for this gripe.  Sorry it's a bit long but hopefully you will understand why I am so angry about this.

On the 2nd April I found out my partner of 10 years had been having an affair with a guy from her work.  I asked her if I had any chance of fixing our relationship, to which she replied she didn't think so.  So for the next week I sat around at home in a deep depression listening to her talk with him on the phone, after another 4 days he stopped calling.  She became upset and I told her to go find him and find out what was going on because if he didn't want to be with her would she give me another chance.  She went and met him and he told her he wasn't sure if he loved her and thought he was having a nervous breakdown.  She came home very distressed and I supported her through this for a week.  I then asked her if we could try again and she said we could.

For the next two weeks I took over the finances, bought her things on a credit card and promised to get her out of the debt she was in.  On the 2nd of May she was involved in a car crash and spent the day in hospital.  On her return home I nursed her for a week.  I then found out she had been in touch with him again and had been sending him pictures I had taken of her.  I was devastated and said that if she contacted him any more I would leave.  She told me she had called him and said not to text call or speak with her again then she said to me "I am sorry I don't want to hurt you any more and I want to be with you."  I believed her and we carried on trying to rebuild our relationship agreeing that once a week we could have an evening when we would be intimate together.

Then I found a message on Facebook from his best friend saying "nice pics, speaking of pictures there has been a misunderstanding call him".  This was in respect of a picture she had seen of him with another blonde girl.  I questioned her about this and said "If you are not in contact with him, why would there be a misunderstanding?".  She said I was being paranoid and although I didn't really believe her, I carried on trying.

The 18th of July arrived, a day I will never forget for many reasons.  I had set up the students breakfasts and sent a text to her asking her to put the milk on the table when she got in at 2.00am from her work.  I received a call from her saying she couldn't come home at 2.00am as one of her work colleagues friends favourite uncle had died and she had to stay on.  I became suspicious and wondered if she was lying and was actually with him.  I called her work and it was engaged, I waited 10 minutes and called again to find it still engaged.  My suspicions heightened.  I called his mobile and it was engaged.  Both phones were engaged for 40 minutes.  Eventually I got through to her work.  I hung up and called his phone again and told him to "Just leave her alone."  I called her again and asked her "Why are you talking with him again?", to which she just said "I guess because I still love him."  I asked if we were done and she just said "Yes."

Out of anger I stupidly went to his house and took it out on his car.  I know that this was a silly thing to do and I was duly arrested and spent the night in a cell.  when I came out the next day I was up for 3 charges, one for criminal damage and two other more serious charges.  She had alleged that during the last night we were intimate together that I had said "If you don't sleep with me I won't pay the mortgage..."  The later of course was all just her word and completely untrue, no evidence at all for any of it.  I have never done anything wrong in my life, never been in a police station and no way would harm anyone.  I paid the mortgage solely for 10 years and transferred all spare cash to a joint account and for the last 3 months to her account.  I looked after our two children ages 3 and 9 five days a week, cramming all my 37 hours into Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning, while she went out to work to fund her spending.

When I was released on bail I couldn't return to my house as she was a witness for him and also due to the charges against me from her.  She moved him into my house the night it all happened and he has been there ever since.  On the 19th of July I received a summons to court for a non molestation and occupancy order for the house for her, and a non harassment order against him.  After talking with my solicitor it seems these orders would be put into place no matter what and on the 20th of August the most serious charge was naturally dropped due to a complete lack of evidence.

Relationship breakup

So why do I have a gripe with the CSA?  Consider this.  She is living at my home with her new boyfriend who earns £30,000 a year and she has earned the equivalent of £44,000 (£22,000 normal salary) a year for the last 5 years due to me looking after the children and her being able to work a lot of overtime.  Also on top of this they have the students living there probably bringing in another £300 a month.  I never wanted to leave her and if I could have still been there I would have been.  She is refusing to let me to see the children and now wants me to pay her £280 a month through the CSA when I have a monthly wage of £1,350 and outgoings of £1,110 due to having to rent a place and pay off the £5,000 credit card bill I ran up trying to keep her!  This is without the £280 child support and the £220 an hour for the solicitor I have to pay to get access to my children.

How can the CSA do this when it wasn't my choice to leave and I want to see my children desperately?  I feel that the CSA needs to look at each case individually.  They should look into whether it was the fathers chose to leave the kids and whether or not they want to see them because some mothers out there are spiteful and just deny access to the kids for no valid reason.

By: David


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So true, I to did nothing wrong, she got bored, left me whilst prgnant not knowing who was the father, then csa got me after we sold the home.....been paying for 7 years and I have never seen my daughter, still done know if she is mine.....cant find my ex, cant find my daughter, even though spent thousands looking for her.......cant prove she is mine as the csa want a dna and I have to provided a sample of my dna and my daughter, how can I when I dont know where she is......7 years of paying, what can I do
*Neil  26-Jul-2010 19:46

 
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alpha chump

A term used to define the dominating male at CCPC. usually is a strong, masculine, beastly man who takes authority on everything and never loses. any who are not rolling thick with the alpha chump are just straight chumps
*alpha chump  27-Apr-2010 00:18

 
"Given your poverty of language and your inability to express and original thought, ..."

Heh, heh, heh....Smithy... What a chump you are!
*Descriptive  27-Apr-2010 00:00

 
Joey

"You must be ok with your hard earned money going to LAZY people sitting at home allday" Where did I say that?

I was agreeing with the person who thinks it's lazy thinking to describe people you have never met as "fat" and then assume that means they are also lazy.

Given your poverty of language and your inability to express and original thought, if you have a degree - which I doubt - then you must have bought it by mail order.
*Smithy  26-Apr-2010 18:19

 
Now now ladies. Do we have a challenge here? handbags at dawn :-)
*Rider of the Apocalypse  26-Apr-2010 16:27

 
Smithy. What are you on about you clown? Good for you working all those years. You must be ok with your hard earned money going to LAZY people sitting at home allday.Strange, but if you dont mind, thats fine.
As for your friends who are worth ten of me....ok. I have 4 A'levels, a degree, and work fulltime, aswell as helping out at a local nursing home for free as a volunteer. Yes, Im a real scum bag aren't I?
*joey  26-Apr-2010 16:24

 
My partner has 2 children with his ex partner, he pays £300 a month for thise 2 children who he has not been allowed to see for 11 YEARS!!! ... He was kicked out ov thr house as she had been screwin around with the bloke who lived over the road, she is one nasty peice ov work and uses them children as pawns in her very sick game, she refers to them as HER children and says my partner has np right to see them. We have 3 children together and we are strugglin with finances because of the CSA! thr a disgrace and so r these mothers who do this
*JoJo  26-Apr-2010 15:10

 
Joey

I have worked in the building trades doing hard physical labour for probably longer than you have been alive. I don't take anything that isn't mine.

I dislike lazy thinking, silly prejudices and bullies. I am not overweight but have friends who are; none of them are stupid or lazy. All of them are worth ten of you.
*Smithy  23-Apr-2010 23:39

 
jonesy...... your fat, I can tell. fat people are lazy otherwise they wouldnt be fat.hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
*adamm  23-Apr-2010 11:04

 
I am getting rather sick of those lazy-minded people who just follow the herd and use the word "fat" as meaning everything evil in the world. It is lame and stupid.

People who are overweight are no more likely to be "lazy" than people who are average size or thin. I know a lot of thin, lazy people and also a lot of hard working decent overweight people.

It is is lazy to just make silly assumptions about people you have never met.

(And no before some feeble minded person makes that particular connection - I am not overweight)
*Jonesy  22-Apr-2010 19:14

 
not sure if anyone has heard this yet. from may 10th, all parent with care's will get full amount of maintenace paid regardless of if they are working or on benefits.So they will get full beneifts and full csa money, another excuse for the lazy fat brigade to sit at home and watch jeremy kyle and loose women instead of working for a living.
*joey  22-Apr-2010 18:28

 
I'm divorced with two kids aged 7 and 9. I'm not allowed to see my kids as I battered my ex-wife's boyfriend when I found out about their affair and got 18 months in prison for GBH. The Family Court said it wasn't in the my childrens' best interests seeing me as I have a conviction for violence even though my ex's live-in junkie boyfriend has worse convictions - my kids now call him dad ffs. Now I'm married again and although I'm not working due to disability, my wife works. I don't claim any benefits. Is it true the CSA can take money from my wife to pay for my kids, sorry, my ex and her smack-head lover's expensive drug habit?
*Bradfordfella  13-Apr-2010 09:08


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