C.S.A claim

tiffinqua

Hoping someone can help.
My partner hasn't paid c.s.a to a child who is now 17.
His x partner has said along she never wanted to go to the csa.
He has tried to maintain contact with his daughter recently,after many years of her being forced into telephoning & visits to this home where we would have to take her home as she didn't want to be here.
Mother trying to make her daughter see her dad when she didn't really want to.
About 2 months ago she posted a note through our door asking dad to contact daughter,although for quite a few weeks dad has tried to contact his daughter & she never answered the phone.
Last september she sent threatening text messages that she would go to the csa,which we told her to do,& then heard nothing more.
He has rung his daughter after the note was posted,& speaks to her once a week,so at least she is now communicating with him.
Now out of the blue,he has received a letter from csa.
Can anyone give advice on this please...can she now try & claim for backdated maintainance,when she has said she was never going to claim even after the threatening text messages last year saying the csa wasn't interested in him.

Crellow4

If this is the first contact from CSA, the liability will start from the date the letter was sent.

tiffinqua

Thank you.
She's had all this time to contact them,then decides now...bit silly when Daughter is 18 in september next year...It's just spite..This we know.

shegirl

tiffinqua wrote: »

Thank you.
She's had all this time to contact them,then decides now...bit silly when Daughter is 18 in september next year...It's just spite..This we know.

Maintenance is payable until the age of 20 if the child is in education.

As for 'spite',well,yes I can see that.But it's not financial spite,it's wanting responsibility for her daughter rather than anything else.

Sad that the daughter dislikes contact with her father.Very sad.

clearingout

so has he actually bothered with his daughter at any level at all? has he put money aside for her or has he just carried on living his life as he wanted? You write as if mum is in the wrong for wanting her child to know her father (something many dads, and some mums who post here regularly would give their right arms for).....*shrugs*....

FBaby

Maybe her financial situation has changed so that whereas until now, she was able to support their daughter on her own, now she can't any longer. Instead of considering that this act is one of spite, maybe you and your partner can see it as a grace period when your partner avoided to contribute towards his child for all this time when he should have.