CSA are unfair

marmite2505

Can anybod help us. My partner had an ex-gf which he was with after she concived a child. She was still seeing this man (behind my partners back) when they were so called together. Anyway the child was born and my partner helped look after her until her ex turned up and started threatning my partner. So he left her in 2002 when the child was a year old. She told my partner good now the kid can have her eal dad and bla bla bla. Anyway out of the blue the CSA started taking money from his earning in 2007. We spoke to his payroll and they said they cannot do anything. Then then after about 2 months the payments stopped. So his ex rang him shouthing accusing him of not giveing her money etc, to which he just hung up to avoind confontaton.

Any way they wrote to his work not to ask if he disputed paternity but to confirm his dob as they though they had the wrong man(rightly so ) so he gave them his bert cert. 2nmonths lateroh there we go more CSA payments. So we finally contacted them after a while (another problem with his work we were sorting) and they said they had sent all the forms letters etc to his address so we asked them to send them to us as we have never recived anything. Got a massive pack full of it which was all being sent to wrong address!!! he ahsnt lived there for years! so he has never had a chance to dispute parentage. They sed its too late! so we got a copy of the kids bert cert and baptism cert and it her ex bf mane on both. Sent all this in they still say its not evidence and he must pay for DNA! we are having trouble affording it. is there anything else we can do. He has since changed jons but of course they will track him back down!!!

kelloggs36

You can appeal against the assessment on the grounds that he did not live at the address to where all paperwork was sent provided that you have concrete proof of that fact.

Blob

As I understand it if the DNA test proves that you are not the father, then the test is free.

Soubrette

Blob wrote: »

As I understand it if the DNA test proves that you are not the father, then the test is free.

I thought you had to stump up the cash up front and then were refunded?

Sou

articfoxy78

my understanding of the DNA test is that you have a few choices. pay a smaller amount up front and get it back if its not proven or get the test done and not pay if its false or pay more if its truethats what we were advised 6 years ago and 2 years ago

kelloggs36

This all depends on whether the CSA will allow you to take the test via them. If not (as it seems to be at the moment in this case - hence the need for OP to prove categorically that the CSA sent paperwork to incorrect address) then the OP will have to go to a CSA approved testing centre and pay the full amount upfront. The results will then have to be approved by CSA and then case closed if parentage is not proven. All the while the OP will have to pay child support. I strongly advise the OP to get evidence of their address at the time that the MEF was sent out to prove that he could not have disputed parentage at the time as he did not receive the chance.

marmite2505

He has a tenancy agreement dated the start of his tenancy where he was living at the time! so would that be sufficient. This is truly unfair as the website states when do we presume parentage: If the father was married to the mother at time of conception - nope the father is named on the birth certificate - nope , the NRP refuese a DNA test - nope.

So its all crap they just will not listen!!! grrrrr:mad:

Blob

My family call it selective hearing, basicly they only hear what they want to hear and the rest of us, well what do we know about our own situation, by them not much, they know it all, or so they would like us to believe!:rolleyes2

marksoton

marmite2505 wrote: »

He has a tenancy agreement dated the start of his tenancy where he was living at the time! so would that be sufficient. This is truly unfair as the website states when do we presume parentage: If the father was married to the mother at time of conception - nope the father is named on the birth certificate - nope , the NRP refuese a DNA test - nope.

So its all crap they just will not listen!!! grrrrr:mad:

That may be enough. Does he have prove of paying the rent at the time as well ?

The more evidence he has the stronger his case.

To be fair the website would be massive if it had every permutation on it !