CSA documents

gw_94

When the CSA send you a document saying you have to pay X amount of money, is it a legal document? or they can change their mind whenever they want to ?

unhappy_with_ecar

CSA will request financial information from you to determine what you should pay. Make sure you always respond to their requests as otherwise they will substitute what you should pay with a ludicrous high sum which will then build up as a large debt. If you don't pay CSA you will end up being summoned to court and in worse case be banned from driving or given a suspended prison term in default of payment.

gw_94

unhappy_with_ecar wrote: »

CSA will request financial information from you to determine what you should pay. Make sure you always respond to their requests as otherwise they will substitute what you should pay with a ludicrous high sum which will then build up as a large debt. If you don't pay CSA you will end up being summoned to court and in worse case be banned from driving or given a suspended prison term in default of payment.

Thank you for your reply,

Can I ask is the CSA documentation a legal document? (the amount you have to pay)

unhappy_with_ecar

yes it is, it would be enforced in the family court of the magistrates court

fivalentine

yes it can be enforced, however the amount can be changed if an error is found or if the calculation was made in ignorance of a material fact ie income not declared or a child in the non residents house that was not taken in to account

hth

pd001

unhappy_with_ecar wrote: »

CSA will request financial information from you to determine what you should pay. Make sure you always respond to their requests as otherwise they will substitute what you should pay with a ludicrous high sum which will then build up as a large debt. If you don't pay CSA you will end up being summoned to court and in worse case be banned from driving or given a suspended prison term in default of payment.

All true!
However, most of that is a very long way down the line....

If you do, eventually, get taken to court by the CSA then things change a little bit. The court can take certain aspects of you personal circumstances into account, which the csa do not.
The court can stipulate a payment schedule which is lower, and therefore probably much longer, than the csa may want.
The csa has to abide by the court decision..as does the person who finds themselves in court.
The downside is that the court may decide to up payments. Again both the csa and the person in court have to accept the courts decision.

As I have said above the court will take into account more of your personal circumstances than the csa are prepared to.

Swings and roundabouts...........