I Need a solicitor to take on CSA, help!

manorpaul

DUTR wrote: »

Other threads will show you that if the CSA are not going to respond to MPs then chances are they wont respond to a solicitor, and when it does go to court, probably get pulled at the 11th hour, and you are still lumbered with a bill towards the legal fees,
saying that you can stay stubborn and seek a solicitor as you wish

Ok, if the 'shoe was on the other foot'........... what would you do? As the judges are always going to be on the CSA's side!

manorpaul

Kimitatsu wrote: »

Why do you not have the letters? You can represent yourself at the hearing and can ask for an adjournment.

However if you owe arrears then you will still be liable to pay them. I would question why it has taken you 10 years to try to get to the bottom of this though.

If you read my earlier posts about them telling me what I should be paying each week and it changes from time to time, normally £0.00, so I would of thought the question should be, why has it taken them 10 years to decide what I should be paying each week! ?

angelsmomma

manorpaul wrote: »

To be honest with you and I don't really know how much I should say on here but I'll be honest........... no, no I haven't. As I said in my earlier posts the CSA say I should pay £5.00 or £6.00 per week so then I wait to get more mail from them about setting up some sort of payment plan via direct debit or whatever they do, I never hear back from them for ages then I will get a letter from them again saying I should pay £0.00 per week???? So what the hell am I meant to do?

Well no offense but you could have made a standing order to an account in the sum of £5 a week marked child support and paid to your ex for the child. This looks really bad as even people on jsa have to pay a nominal amount out of their benefits.

I am not having a go here just saying how it looks from outside. I do think you will have to pay arrears though not sure how that will fit in with your going BR as you mentioned on your other thread.

DUTR

manorpaul wrote: »

Ok, if the 'shoe was on the other foot'........... what would you do? As the judges are always going to be on the CSA's side!

I would adopt the services of NACSA, luckily for me I file all correspondance and statements for monies paid to the csa, I would never pay the PWC directly, the judges are not always going to be on the side of the csa, hwever you have to accept some lowly street corner brief is not going to be a match for the goverment legal bods

sulkisu

manorpaul wrote: »

So what the hell am I meant to do?

You don't need (or shouldn't need) the government to tell you that your child has needed food, clothes etc over the past ten years and that you, as the father, are partially responsible for providing this (whatever the circumstances). Don't you realise how ridiculous and appalling it sounds when you say that you haven't paid a penny over the past ten years, because nobody has told you how much to pay? Even £5 per week, the amount that those on JSA have to pay, would have made a difference - perhaps not a huge financial difference but at least it would give the impression of a father who cares about his child.

£2600 to feed and keep a child over ten ten years is not a huge amount - (£260 per year) it costs more to feed a dog. This may be an unpopular view, but perhaps the decent thing to do instead of trying to find a way out of paying, would be to find a way to pay the arrears and consider that you have got off relatively lightly.

manorpaul

sulkisu wrote: »

You don't need (or shouldn't need) the government to tell you that your child has needed food, clothes etc over the past ten years and that you, as the father, are partially responsible for providing this (whatever the circumstances). Don't you realise how ridiculous and appalling it sounds when you say that you haven't paid a penny over the past ten years, because nobody has told you how much to pay? Even £5 per week, the amount that those on JSA have to pay, would have made a difference - perhaps not a huge financial difference but at least it would give the impression of a father who cares about his child.

£2600 to feed and keep a child over ten ten years is not a huge amount - (£260 per year) it costs more to feed a dog. This may be an unpopular view, but perhaps the decent thing to do instead of trying to find a way out of paying, would be to find a way to pay the arrears and consider that you have got off relatively lightly.

Thank you, just to add to mix of it all, my name is NOT on the birth certificate, we were both young and having fun at the time, so I don't even know if the child in question is even mine and we split before the child was born!

manorpaul

DUTR wrote: »

I would adopt the services of NACSA, luckily for me I file all correspondance and statements for monies paid to the csa, I would never pay the PWC directly, the judges are not always going to be on the side of the csa, hwever you have to accept some lowly street corner brief is not going to be a match for the goverment legal bods

Thank you for your unbiased advice, much appreciated.

DUTR

manorpaul wrote: »

Thank you, just to add to mix of it all, my name is NOT on the birth certificate, we were both young and having fun at the time, so I don't even know if the child in question is even mine and we split before the child was born!

Does not matter if your name is not on the BC, lots of people have been there, one *&^% too many and pay the cost for years afterwards
At the time of recieving the MEF, there was the opportunity to highlight that you cannot be assumed the NRP :j

manorpaul

DUTR wrote: »

Does not matter if your name is not on the BC, lots of people have been there, one *&^% too many and pay the cost for years afterwards
At the time of recieving the MEF, there was the opportunity to highlight that you cannot be assumed the NRP :j

what is an MEF?

manorpaul

manorpaul wrote: »

what is an MEF?

Sorry, just read it, maintenance enquiry form.