CSA: what happens when said party dies?

help_me_please_3

I was claiming child support for a few months then father comitted suicied pardon my spelling. i im tired. what happenens to the benefit, does it just stop? or is it taken from the estate? ps this happened a few months ago.

karenx

Sorry to hear what happened. Unfortunatly it now just stops as the other party has passed away

AnxiousMum

Sorry to hear the unfortunate news, and I hope that your child is finding a way to struggle through the grief. The child support would of course stop, but hopefully from the father's estate, there has been some arrangements made for the financial assistance of the child, or an inheritance that might be able to assist with the financial needs throughout the years.

DX2

You can only collect arrears from the estate nothing more.

PART 4 Recovery from Estates

Application and interpretation

10.—(1) This Part applies in relation to the estate of a person who dies on or after the day on which these Regulations come into force.
(2) In this Part, “child support maintenance” means child support maintenance for the collection of which the Commission is authorised to make arrangements.
Recovery of arrears from a deceased person’s estate

11. Arrears of child support maintenance for which a deceased person was liable immediately before death are a debt payable by the deceased’s executor or administrator out of the deceased’s estate to the Commission.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20093151_en_2

ukmarine1

how ungrateful of him to die and still not be able to pay!! i think you need to prioritise