Everything put into new wifes name!

Susie_B_3

Hope someone can advise me here and I will try and be as brief as possible.
I have 17 year old son studying A levels and have been divorced 12 years, I have remained single and receive working tax credits. All my equity from former house was lost into ex's business on farm, which I failed to regain in a court case last year.
Ex remarried very soon after divorce and has 3 children by new wife. Interim !!!. done by CSA ( because ex refused to fill in forms)quite a few years ago but was unpaid. When the bill reached £9000 I involved my MP who successfully got CSA to pay one payment of £3000 in 2001 and the remainder was paid off at £75 per month until last year.
Ex is self-employed and reckons he earns £35 per week! The best bit is he remains on land we owned ( and lived in a caravan) but now lives in very large farmhouse which they built on 57 acres of farmland (valued at £900,000. Have built a separate 4*b&b holiday flat which they charge £400-500 per week. Livery stables, small camping site and 20 newly built boarding kennels. His 3 children go to private school and he drives a mercedes.

Everything (property, income etc) has been put into new wifes name which he refuses to disclose to CSA. I have just been informed by CSA that he has nill assessment as he has no income! I can appeal to the decision and have sent me a departures form to fill in. This form is then sent to ex for his answer, the consequences of this is my son suffers, as his strained relationship with his father is increased further by being ostracised by the family.
Should I appeal and fill in departures form or contact my MP again ? The system is being made a mockery of here

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kelloggs36

I look at it this way - you can't lose anything. You don't need to discuss the issue with your son and you can fight for what is morally right. Expect nothing, but do what you can to win.

Prudent

He cannot dispose of his assests simply to avoid the csa. My sisiter took her her ex and the csa to court over the issue and he was assessed at the full value of his assests for child support (he was a london landlord with several properties).

When I first began reading your story I thought you were afriend of mine and then it began to differ. My friend got her ex's real income by getting the farm accounts of the net. When he had to apply for planning permission to build a new house on the farm he had to submit his farm accounts to prove it was a working farm. Worth a try maybe?

kelloggs36

Can you get the Land Registry details which proves the names the property is in? It is public info, so if you know the address you can do this yourself; you will know if it is true yourself then. You can ask the CSA to investigate further as they now have powers to access bank accounts without permission of the NRP so if he has an account in his sole name then they can find it.

Susie_B_3

Thank you for suggestions. PP for the farm was granted when we were together, think he must have reapplied but he had mainly discontinued the farm business when the house was being built. He just seems to keep the accounts going on minimal amount - hence the £35 per week income and they are I believe joint directors of the business. He has no assets! Properties are all in wifes name and most of land although. I vaguely remember from the court case last year he either fully owns or jointly owns some of the ground on the farm and I believe that was landlocked!.Will try and contact land registry. I had all these documents from him for the court case, but I was so disgusted with the outcome (my solicitors were almost speechless) I destroyed them! One comment from the judge I will always remember was 'that I was a victim of the inadequacies of the CSA'!! Thank goodness I can still smile on a good day!!

kelloggs36

If it is a ltd company there should be accounts which are obtainable from Companies House - if he is shown as being a Director it should have both Directors' remuneration. If it shows they both are directors, you could ask the question 'why is she drawing an income and he isn't?' Again, it is public info, although you will have to pay for it. Oh, and if you can prove date of transfer of assets etc, then the CSA CAN look upon it as though he did it deliberately in order to reduce his liability and take a different figure.

Susie_B_3

The farm business is a ltd company but that was HIS original business which the 35pw goes into. The only monies coming out of that were then my CSA payment of £75 and a small amount each month to his parents for inheritance tax. The new businesses are separate to this, If I remember correctly everything is put into her name but they do have joint bank accounts which she will not allow CSA access.

welshcakes

Susie_B wrote: »

... but they do have joint bank accounts which she will not allow CSA access.

Does she have a right to do this? If he is a named bank account holder, then I thought he was legally required to disclose details of his accounts (regardless of whether they are single or joint).

kelloggs36

I know that for Third Party Debt orders (where they can sieze the contents of a bank account) they can't do it on joint accounts for that reason. Only on single accounts unfortunately.

welshcakes

Ah ok, it's just that when I was getting a divorce, my estranged husband already had a joint account with his girlfriend and he was liable to provide the statements as part of disclosure.

snowmaid

I am a firm believer in whatever you send round, comes round. Has this idiot considered what will happen if dear old 2nd wife decides she has had enough and kicks him out on his @ss?? With everything in her name and him not having provided a pence??