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Shared care. How to make it formal?
Hi All, I couldn't sleep whole night, hope you can help. TL;DR Unmaried father seeks to make shared care formal. We split up last year. My ex had gone into YOLO end of life, she is working very very hard and partying hard. I'm with children ( 2 of them ) 5 to 6 days a week usually for the last few months. We were never…
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Diversion of income??
Hello I'm new to forums so please forgive anything I do wrong, but I really need some advice. I have 2 year old twins with my ex. Originally he paid maintenance through an arrangement between us, but after all the games and threats, I decided enough was enough and contacted CMS. They gave us the figure he had to pay and…
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Sorry, posted in wrong place, please delete. Confused about application
Hi I'm looking for some advice with regard to benefits for my elderly father. I've never claimed myself and am finding the various sources of guidance extremely confusing. My father is 76 and is diabetic and has been for many years. He is also on medication for high blood pressure and has a heart murmur. He lives with my…
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Would payments stop in these circumstances?
This is purely out of curiosity after I was asked by a family member and I had no answer. If your DSC is over 18 but still study 2 full days a week and also working 3 earning are you still required to pay CSA? Also if said child quits college for an apprenticeship which pays full time wage but requires a day at college so…
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CSA worry
Hi folks. I'm sure i am going to get judged and damned for this. I did.
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Getting Child Support from ex-partner in Australia
Hi, I am someone who actually has got a child support case with Australia. Took a long while to track my ex down, but I was determined to do it for the sake of my 4 kids. Took a while to get it up and running and ok,he still does all the usual tricks to avoid payment. But at the end of the day, he has the CSA asking for…
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Ex Going Self-Employed - Help
Hi Ex has informed me he's going to be self employed from the next couple of weeks. Previously I got paid regular maintenance as he was in full time work. However he's telling me payments may be irregular with him starting up. He's not disputing the amount, just when it might be paid. Do I just have to accept this? Is…
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Csa! unfair payments!
I really need someone to help. I received 1x £16 payment for December and 1x £31 payment for December. I am supposed to receive £31 weekly so I have been underpaid for December and January. My ex partner has a child with another ex, so I was under the impression that whatever payment the csa receive from my ex would be…
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Just how painful is it?
Afternoon, I have a 3 yr old, and for various reasons her father has not paid towards her upkeep, bar £20 towards a new pair of shoes a few weeks a go. He's now in a well paying job and said he was going to start paying. Shock horror, he hasn't. I've been incredibly patient and reasonable with him, but I sincerely think…
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Ex has income paid via his wife to avoid paying CSA
Hi this has been going on for a few years now and I feel CSA are fobbing me off. My ex pays £21.81 a month for our 2 children, his wife doesn't work at all. He runs his own company (think he changed it into wife's name) and claims he only earns between £5-£100 a week. In reality, he drives around in brand new Range Rover,…
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CSA & Step Children
Hello. So long story short, my ex-partner has never paid a penny for our daughter and will go to extreme lengths to avoid doing so(!) he has a nine year old who he has never missed a payment for! It's been with the CSA for the last few years, who state that unless he tells them what he's doing there's nothing they can do…
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CSA if ex takes Additional Paternity Leave APL
My ex husband is having a baby with new wife. Up until now he has paid CSA calculated amount for our 2 children & spousal maintenance directly to me following court ruling. With the new system of shared parental leave coming into force in April 2015 if he becomes the stay at home parent on APL (his wife is the high earner)…
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CSA Refund
Hi, I wonder if you can help. My husband has been paying CSA payments for his two daughters which ended in September 2014, as we thought. I rang as soon as we knew his daughter had finished college and was in full time employment, to inform them. They took over three months to look into it and then we had a phone call that…
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Shared care - who is PWC?
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Child Maintenance Avoidance Via High Earning Spouse
Does anyone have experience of my predicament? My previously self-employed ex has remarried and now avoids paying any child maintenance by claiming that he lives solely off his high earning wife's wages. The current rules deem neither of them have any financial responsibility for his dependent child and the CSA refuse to…
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Refunded 3 years back dated over payment
In October last year I asked for a child benefit check for my son who was coming up to his 20th this January gone. They got back to me 4 days later informing me that my case was closed as of 14th October 2011, and that they would be in contact with me about any over payment i was due back, I had a few calls off the CSA…
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CSA just don't want me debt free!
Hi, after being in debt to the CSA for the past 15 years, at it's highest the debt was around £15k, I paid and paid, lost my home, worked all day and night, kept up my current payments and added what I could for the arrears each week, and at last, in December 2014, I paid off the the finale £1000. It was such a weight of…
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child support following death of ex.
My ex paid maintenance for our one son. My ex passed away nearly a year ago. I think all widows and widows benefits only relate where still married. Wierd since divorce doesn't alter parental responsibility. Does anyone know whether there is any help out there for maintenance post death? I understand that income from a…
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CSA Reassessment self employed
Hi currently on CSA2 and have never had a reassessment. The ex now says she wants more money and will be asking the CSA to reassess which I don't have a problem with as everything is amicable. My question is do the CSA look at just the most recent HMRC figures or will they go back over the last 4 years of online self…
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Unpaid Maintenance
I split with kids dad five years ago, in the first year he didn't pay a penny towards kids, and then he became a taxi driver (and boasted it was so I couldn't prove earnings) and after a few years of him using money as a weapon (if I upset him or wound him up then he would just stop the money) I then resorted to going…
