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Child support

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Child Support Agency being difficult - Help please!
Hi am hoping someone here can put some light at the end of the tunnel for me, I am feeling completely shafted and hopeless. I'll try and summise. I got a call then a letter from the CSA recently, My ex-wife is (falsely) claiming for non payment from 2008 to 2016. The CSA want me to pay her back about £5.5k (£50 a week) I…
back dated child support
My son is now 26, but my husband left us when he was 12. Due to his irresponsiblity and drug abuse we lost our home and I have had to work full time to support ourselves not receiving any money from him at all. He was unemployed and of no fixed abode so there was no point in trying to claim anything from him I have now…
Ex has applied for variation in CM
I've recently received a letter from the CMS informing me that XH has applied for a variation in his CM payment. Apparently he's applying for a variation due to contributing to the mortgage on the FMH "with no legal obligation to do so", however although I live in the house with our children it has been ordered through the…
Confused about different childcare options
Hi, this is my first post. I've had a look through the forum but couldn't find a post that could answer all my questions. Basically my wifes had our second child (now 4 months old) and shes looking at going back to work in november (16hours a week, on minimum wage). We are currently looking at several different nursaries.…
Advice?
My husband pays £77 a week child support to his ex. His son is 18 is in college and works and has recently become a father himself. My question is when does a child stop being a child and surely if he's fathered his own child we shouldn't have to pay such a ludicrous amount? Advice would be grately appreciated.
Payment
Hi, I currently pay CM for my 17 year old daughter. I!!!8217;ve had no contact with her since she walked out just over two years ago (a teenage tantrum). I understand she is going to university in September and wondered if anyone knows what happens about CM. It is heartbreaking paying it knowing that her Father will not be…
flat rate - ESA and property rental
Hi Just need some clarity please, feel like I’m going mad, what I’m being told by CMS can’t possibly be right can it?? A NRP on contribution based ESA (lives in a mortgage free property) * can earn up to £125 per week (to a max of 16 hours) for permitted work * receive rental income from 3 properties – approx. £450/500 per…
Full time education defined
Hi Folks I'm trying to get some clarity on what full time education is? My daughter is 17 and attending FE College to do an NVQ level 2 in Beauty Therapy. This course runs for 36 weeks, 11 hours per week. The college say it is a Full time course, however the CSA and Child Maintenance Options state that full time education…
Unemployment because of illness
I need some advice on possible future retrospective claims for child maintenance payments. I've been diagnosed with a condition that is preventing me from working, so I've lost my job. I'm hoping to get this treated and find new employment in the future as I can't afford to not work. Do I still have to pay my ex for child…
Work child care
I work in an independent fee paying school and kids of staff who go to the school (and pay for this) have in the past been able to go to the after school care that the school runs free of charge. The school is looking to start charging at 50% of the normal rate for kids of staff members in the autumn. We've been told that…
Am I the only one who thinks it isn't right...
Basically my ex wife & I have 2 children, our daughter (13) lives with me & our son (10) lives with her. We split the care 50:50, as in our kids spend every weekend & all school holidays together. We both work & she has re-married. Her husband works as a social worker. Most people in this situation, i.e. with care of one…
Ex Wife Being a pain
Hi, Please can someone help? My ex wife keeps demanding to see three pay slips, every time I say I cannot afford to give more. I have always paid maintenance, on time and given extra when I can afford it. Our daughters prom is coming up, and she has gone spend crazy, I simply cannot afford to give any extra at present she…
Child maintenance...not
I have spent the last 3 years trying to get child maintenance from my ex for our two children, one of which is disabled. He is a self-employed contractor and claimed he only paid himself the minimum wage. I told them he was driving a two-year-old Mercedes 4x4 and went to the US on holiday lastyear so they did a variation…
Lump sum
Does my tax free, lump sum, from my pension, class as earnings, for the child maintenance?
Please Ignore - found my answer
Found the answer I was looking for - September 3rd. Thanks for stopping by. Have a nice day. I would delete post/thread if I could.
When does a father stop paying for Child Maintenance, daughter is 18
Hello When does a father stop paying Child Maintenance for his daughter who's 18 and she works part time. She's 19 in few months and is starting College in September to do an A Level part time? sunni
Back dated CSA
My parents broke up when I was 2 and I haven’t seen my mum since. She paid maintenance for a few months but stopped. The CSA tried to get it after this and couldn’t. My Dad tried to use the service until I was 18 but still no money. Can I try to get this for him now? I’m 30.
Not paying child maintenance
Hello, My ex and I separated when my son was little over a year old (he's now 7). In the first few years I took care of him almost exclusively (~5 nights a week) but since he started school full time my ex and I changed the arrangement for Thursday's - Sunday's, which has been fair for both of us ever since. We have never…
Arrears
Hi, Can anyone help please. Back in November 2016 I was in arrears to the tune of £1700. Since then I have paid the monthly amount as per letters from CMS, and I always understood that the payments were made up of “ongoing maintenance” which is the percentage of your wages that you should be paying, plus a bit extra…
Disclosing income for maintenance calculation
Hi, I'm a paying parent and I'm happy to pay the maintenance, but do I have to disclose to my ex partner the details of my P60 on a yearly basis? The amount needs to be calculated yearly, and it is, but nowhere does it say that I need to share confidential financial details to my ex. She and her solicitor are demanding my…

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