any ideas on timescales?

libbyc3

Hi,
don't know if anyone will know, but....
I split with ex in 1999 and fild claim with CSA as he had no intention of providing any support. it took a year for them to assess him as having to pay £51 per week and another year to put attatchment of earning order on him as I still hadn't recieved a penny. After the first payment was taken from his wages he packed up his job and moved to Sweden (bit extreme to aviod paying for his kids but hey!)
He has had sporadic contact with the kids over the years but we have had little contact and certainly no money.
Then Xmas 2008 the kids went to stay with him at his mums in Liverpool for few days and through them I discovered he is now working in this country - by now DS and DD are 15 and 17 and I am way beyond chasing support. My son this morning, however said his dad has phoned him and said if I don't get the CSA off his back he will really make my life hell by moving to near where I live now!?!
knowing nothing about this I phoned the CSA today and they told me the case had never been closed the £51 per week has been building up as arrears all these years and the attatchment of earnings still stands. they have recieved his earning details from his new employer and are in the process of assessing.
OMG!!! this is completely unexpected and the thought of actuall getting some money is (literally) unbelievable. Apparently he has told DD he has employed a solicititor to fight this.
If anyone is not bored to tears reading this so far, do you have any idea how long it might take to see anything from this? can he get out of it? The bloke i spoke to at the CSA didn't really seem to know
thanks

kelloggs36

It sounds like they have already notified him and his employer and he will lose any case so he can waste any money he likes going to a solicitor. If he was notified at the time of his liability and failed to notify the CSA of his change in circumstances the arrears will stand, plus if I were you IF he gets the arrears wiped out, then appeal on the grounds that he left the country in order to avoid paying the CSA which is deprivation of income as he left immediately following the setting up of a DEO.

It doesn't sound like it will be long, provided he doesn't do the same again, but again if he does then that would strengthen any case for deprivation of income and they will pursue him relentlesly.

libbyc3

thank you for telling me exactly what i wanted to hear - i may actually start believing in justice!!!

Blob

They do anyway no matter what!