mother claiming csa arrears from daughters

cheza1982

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RAS

Hi
Maybe go over to the family and marriage forum for help re intestacy.

Also read the probate office web-site.

Did you mother recieve any financial assistance from him in the last 5 years of her ex's life?

cheza1982

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cheza1982

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RAS

Whats not clear to me from the first post is whether:

1. Your mother ever made a claim for CSA.
2. Whether there was an award ever made against him by the CSA?
3. Whether there was ever any actual arrears as assessed by the CSA

Given the other stories on here, some are definately still being actively pursued for arrears from the mid 1990's for children who are now adult but who may not even be their children! I assume yoiu father would have known about it if there were arrears.

There is some possiblity that the Statute of limitations does apply to CSA before 2000, get hold of kelloggs who post on here.

Or are these arrears something that you mother thought your father should have paid but which have no legal basis?

PlayingHardball

Cheza - First of all, sorry to hear of your fathers accident - I'm sure thats very difficult for you and your sisters, and probably your Mum too, if as you say, they were friends for the past 13 years.

Can you confirm whether the CSA were involved from when your Dad didn't pay, I think you mentioned from the age of one?

If not, it would be right that the insurance claim is paid out to his children.

If the CSA were involved and a case was open, it would be right that a priority debt was paid out of the estate before insurance policies were paid out. CSA is a priority debt.

As a Mum to 2 older daughters, I don't judge anyone in your situation, Mum or you. But I think it very sad that it has come to this, all because of a little bit of money. £18k split 3 ways isn't life changing. Whats more important? 6K or a relationship with Mum. 18k wouldn't entice me to estrange myself from my children - I get your point though, and why you are angry with your Mum if she never persued the back dated child support...until now.

Best of luck, hope it will eventually work out for you all.

cheza1982

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PlayingHardball

My previous post - I wasn't aware the insurance was 65K, apologies, I thought it wa 18K

PlayingHardball

Sorry, I typed a response but someone managed to delete it. I wanted to say that once you find out if the CSA were involved or not, you can get expert advice from NACSA (google them). Kelloggs, as another poster said, is very clued up on CSA1.

cheza1982

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