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This is another gripe about those lovely people at the CSA. When my ex-wife and I split up, I moved in to rented accommodation and paid my ex-wife £500.00 per month. I continued this for the first year to help pay for my 2 children and to make sure they had a good home.
For most of the second year I paid £400 and then reduced it again to £220 as it was all I could afford at the time. I used the maintenance calculator from the CSA website to work out what I should pay. Once I moved in with my new partner I looked after looked after my daughter 7 days every 2 weeks (my elder daughter was 19 by this time).
My ex-wife contacted the CSA who then sent me a letter to tell me that our situation was shared care and it might take some time for them to come to an agreement regarding how much I should pay. Although I have paid for clothes, school trips, decorating, TV and DVD for her bedroom, I was still expected to pay my ex-wife.
She stopped me seeing my daughter...
Once she realised that the money she was receiving from me might be reduced, she stopped me seeing my daughter as much and cut it down to 5 days every 2 weeks. It then took just 3 weeks for the CSA to decide I should pay £187 per month plus 5 months backlog.
So at any point my ex-wife could reduce the time I spend with my daughter and get more money, so I loose out on both accounts. The way the CSA handle these situations is a joke with no regard for the fathers situation or feelings.
I feel that I am forced to pay my ex-wife money for her to use on anything, and at the same time I have my daughter and also spend a lot of money looking after her. What do if I can't afford to pay? This month my outgoings are more than I get paid!
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At the end of the day, the father will lose out every time - I couldn't afford to pay solicitors bills for the divorce, so ended up losing the house and none of my outgoings and bills taken into account with the CSA. I'm left with very little money to take him out anywhere and buy him things, but his mother can afford to go down the pub, take holidays and get a new car on what I'm giving her. Time this was looked at - I don't resent paying for my little boy, but there's no way I enjoy subsidising her and her boyfriends lifestyle.
My ex-husband and myself buy most of the clothes for the children and school shoes. She won't sign the form to say my son visited them, a trip of 400 miles, as she knows that money will be deducted from the CSA amount she receives.
I feel its is high time the fathers were brought in to the equation instead of just cash cows. There should be either a body to check where the money is going or more checks by CSA. Even the schools seem to put fathers on the back burner. When my son has rang just to see how they were progressing I get a phone call from his ex blustering about him ringing the school! In this day and age of separation surely there should be something less dictatorial then the present system?
I know that it could be difficult, but how many men are out there struggling through life and let's face it, we only have one of those. It breaks my heart to see my son with no sign of life getting better, and no hope of another relationship with this burden over him.
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I'm trying to pre emt the issue of CSA. I've been with my boyfriend a year and we live together. I am a chartered accountant and I have a nice wage and a fairly comfy life.
My boyfriend is about to change jobs as he is not earning much as a mechanic and he is thinking of taking a delivery drivers job. Its going to be more and I think and I'm not sure if this will work but if we keep this to ourselves, keep it away from his parents who may let slip about it. If his greedy ex doesn't know he earns more then it should be ok. He has voluntarily offered 140 a month and is not claiming tax credits as my wage would make it a no.
I have made sure the tramp cannot touch my money or anything as I checked that my earnings wont be touched as we will be getting married next year. so how do I go about making sure she don't try what so many have tried on this forum. Shall I make it so he don't tell his family and just keep with saying he works as a mechanic. Or is there any other way to protect him from her. I don't think seeing as she trapped him by not taking the pill as she didn't want to work no more (yeah.... one of those)