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Child support

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Maintenance/Childcare/Mediation
Hi everyone - would welcome some advice and guidance on an issue that keeps cropping up. I divorced my ex-wife in 2016 and we have 3 kids. We agreed to split the assets from the house sale 50/50 and she agreed she wanted the kids weekly and I would have them weekends so she could work. I also agreed to start paying…
Calculating Maintenance Advice
I've been paying a family based arrangement every month to my ex partner ever since the birth of my 11 year old daughter. To calculate it we used the Child Maintenance Calculator found on the Government website. I now have a new partner, we are still together and back in April she gave birth to another girl, so now I have…
REMO- New Zealand
Hi, does anybody have experience dealing with the New Zealand csa? An order was made in this country for £400 per month to be paid and was sent to the nz courts. When they finally took him to court the judge decided to reduce it to just £40 a month 😳 In the last 7 years I’ve received 2 payments of approx £200, the last…
CSA arguing there own policies?
I'm a new poster but desperately need help. My DH has two children from a previous relationship, DD who he has no contact with who lives abroad and DS who he has on alterative weekends as well as his ex's other child who he brought up. We travel 120 miles every other weekend to pick up the kids and then take them home,…
Csa mistake help needed
Hi Dont know if i am doing this right not very good with this stuff but here goes. I have allways paid csa and i beleave that there should be something in place but i am now having a very big problem with the old csa. I have never had any arears up until last year when i started getting letters saying i owed £1500 in…
Ex refusing maintenance.
Hi all, Me and my ex separated in january but have been living together since then, we own the property and we are both on the mortgage. Things have become very difficult between us so for the children's sake (and my own) I have chosen to move out and rent privately as he refused to move out (plus it's a large 4 bed house…
CSA arrears
hi everyone, I don't post often so please bare with me ... I have always paid CSA via standing order and have always paid the amount that CSA declared that I should pay. I have now received a letter saying that I owe £3260 in arrears. I have phoned CSA to find out what's going on and have been told that my payments…
Maintenance what does it cover
Help needed.... I would like to know what is actually covered by my maintenance payments.. I have two girls one is 13 and 12, currently I don't actually get to take my eldest as she refuses to spend any time with me but she will talk to me but only in her home with her mother there, occasionally I get to take out my…
Backdating Private Maintenance Agreement
Hi there, am very new to this so apologies if my questions have been covered previously. My partner has a 5 year old child with his ex wife who he has not had any contact with since July 2014 as his ex blocked access when he left the relationship as a result of her domestic violence towards him. From the month he left he…
High Income Child Benefit Charge
Hi, Please can someone help or advise... This morning I have received a letter advising I need to pay x amount of charges as I fall in the high income bracket and have also being receiving child benefit. The facts above might be true, however these charges are going back to 2014 and I think this is really unfair as now…
Fake tax docs to open CSA claim 4 years on
Just wondered what anyone thinks about this ,yesterday i received a letter from the CSA telling me my ex wife has applied for a variation of maintenance which is based on a child maintenance agreement that expired in 2014. With the letter and the accusation that I hadn’t declared my income for a period of time there was a…
Report Change of Earnings for Paying Parent
Hi Everyone, More of a moral dilemma (and also check if I'm obligated to do so): So current state of play, I'm the receiving parent for CMS payments for my child - the current amount the CMS calculated is around £55pcm - The paying parent has missed the last 2 payments on Direct Pay and has now been switched to Collect &…
still owed child maintenance arrears 20 years on
Hi, Long story short, my daughter is now 29 and I am still outstanding over 10K of child maintenance arrears from when she was 2 to 18 (confirmed by the new agency when they inherited the case). CSA were involved right through and its been to ICE who found in my favour. The new agency (I have no idea what they are called…
What happens if cb cancelled
My husbands 18 year may continue in college but as yet he hasn’t rung cms to find out as we don’t know procedure ie if she gets employment then when would the child benefit be cancelled and would they then let cms know and then would the cms write to us to let us know case is closing? Thanks
Can I use childcare vouchers, and my partner the new Tax free childcare?
Is a couple able to use both schemes? My new job doesn't offer vouchers, but my partner is better off on the old scheme. edit: I understand that an individual cannot use both schemes. Can one of a couple use one, and the other use a different one. Thanks!
Child Tac Credit Query
Hi there I'm not sure if anyone can answer this one. I'm currently paying back child tax credits and have been for the last year and I'm not actually sure if I should be. At the time I was claiming them I had had a particularly lousy time and was a single parent living with my elderly parents, I wasn't working at the time.…
Ex-husband's demands
So this is quite a long and difficult case with many different contributing factors however, I will try and keep this brief. A bit of background info, my wife and I have been married for 4.5 years and have had 2 sons. Prior to this she was married for 6 years to her ex-husband and they had 2 daughters. When they separated,…
Support to WRAG ESA
Thank you in advance for replies! Moving from support group ESA to WRAG soon. Was 13 weeks pre assessment, then put onto main phase support ESA for couple of years. I was told that I will have 52 weeks on WRAG ESA. The time spent on pre assessment and Support ESA will not be deducted from time on WRAG ESA. Would you most…
Son off to uni
So one of my 3 kiddies is going to universtity in a few weeks time. Anyone know what the process is for the CMS people? Am I required to let them know, or must it come from my ex as I am the NRP? Or are they clever enough to figure it out for themselves due to CB ending. I would prefer to be re-assessed due to this change…
Child choosing to move away - what happens now?
Hi All Bit confused. My partners 17 year old daughter who is due to start college in September in the town where her Mum lives has now decided that against our wishes she is going to move in with the boyfriend and his Mum and go to college in a different town instead. My partner and his ex have an agreement where he…

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