Maintainence payment probs for ex

wotsundermykilt

Hi all,
I have just recieved a letter from csa demanding £900 for my ex wife from 1987. We had 2 kids together & i paid maint until 1997/98 when csa gave me a rebate for paying too much. At no time did i ever agree, that i can remember, to pay maint to my ex wife. I phoned them up & they said i had made payments until the end of 2001 but still had £900 arrears. For the life of me i cannot remember paying them anything for my ex, but my head was so in the sand years ago because of debt problems maybe i did pay but i have no proof.
Anyway my question is this, can I request some sort of proof that I would pay my ex wife money & also proof of what I paid & when so that i can seek legal advice? This is doing my head in because i am really strapped for cash like most folk. I just find it hard to bear that something like this can still haunt you 20 years after you have split & she remarried so quickly after we split.
Mike

TheWaltons_3

wotsundermykilt wrote: »

Hi all,
I have just recieved a letter from csa demanding £900 for my ex wife from 1987. We had 2 kids together & i paid maint until 1997/98 when csa gave me a rebate for paying too much. At no time did i ever agree, that i can remember, to pay maint to my ex wife. I phoned them up & they said i had made payments until the end of 2001 but still had £900 arrears. For the life of me i cannot remember paying them anything for my ex, but my head was so in the sand years ago because of debt problems maybe i did pay but i have no proof.
Anyway my question is this, can I request some sort of proof that I would pay my ex wife money & also proof of what I paid & when so that i can seek legal advice? This is doing my head in because i am really strapped for cash like most folk. I just find it hard to bear that something like this can still haunt you 20 years after you have split & she remarried so quickly after we split.
Mike

Wow.

That is a disgrace. There are Mums with babies struggling to afford the milk to feed them on today in 2007 - and they are harassing YOU, when your child is an adult, for money?

!!!!!!?

Scarlett1

whether you agree to it or not you had to pay maintenance for the upkeep of your children, what you could do is ring them up and ask them for a complete breakdown of whats been paid and when and ask them where the arrears come from

ukdrummajor

send in a subject access request like people have with bank charges...hang on and i`ll find the correct form.

ukdrummajor

YOUR ADDRESS HERE

CSA Departmental Data Protection
Room 165J
DSS Longbenton
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE98 1YX
DATE:

Reference No: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear sir or madam
Please send me the information to which I am entitled to under section 7(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998. I request all computer and clerical records to which I am entitled, and would ask that the notepad sections of the computer files are dated.
If you need further information from me, or a fee, please let me know as soon as possible.
If you do not normally handle these requests for your organisation, please pass this letter to your Data Protection Officer or another appropriate official.
Yours faithfully

NAR

CSA only collect maintenance for children AFAIK! Maintenance for your wife would be paid directly to her or through a court. Also maintenance for your wife would cease when she remarried.

Zara33

TheWaltons wrote: »

Wow.

That is a disgrace. There are Mums with babies struggling to afford the milk to feed them on today in 2007 - and they are harassing YOU, when your child is an adult, for money?

!!!!!!?

I would imagine that is why mothers on a low income get free milk tokens

TheWaltons_3

Zara33 wrote: »

I would imagine that is why mothers on a low income get free milk tokens

My point is, why are they chasing him on a case so old, when there are cases from just TWO years ago being completely ignored and Mums struggling today with BABIES to feed, not 20 year olds.

I have heard of backlogs, but this is ridiculous.

And before anyone assumes I am bitter about the CSA. I don't receive it as I am with my husband.

I think it's disgraceful.

Zara33

I assume they try and collect outstanding debt all the time regardless if it's 2 years or 20 years. Just because it's an old case doesn't mean it's forgotten about.

kelloggs36

That's right. All arrears are owed and so the NRP must pay them. There will be no maintenance for the parent - I am not sure what you are saying here. The money will be owed to the parent with care of the children, for the children but it is not spousal maintenance, it is child maintenance. What makes the OP think this is maintenance for the parent?

Mr_Green_Genes

OP stated arrears were from 1987. Since that was 4 years before the Child Support act, it strikes me that someone has got their wires crossed. The Act wasn't retrospective as far as I know.