CSA can someone help please

babyblade41

Ive been married to my husband for nearly 10 years (2nd marriage) and in all that time there has been problems with CSA and his alleged arrears.

We have had no end of rows over it and it's cropped up again.

The CSA have been back and forth trying to claim the arrears , they say approx 12 k . I am pretty sure they have got some of their figures wrong as he had letters saying nothing more was owed.

The kids are grown up now but this is still ongoing and CSA have written to his employer re an attachment of earnings letter.

He has stated he will go self employed to force a court appearance so that he can show everything in court.

As someone who has children with someone else who again are grown up , we have never had a problem with this as it was never necessary and we still have a good relationship

My questions are, will going self employed stop the amount of money coming out of his earnings and secondly, will they take into consideration my earnings in all this as I earn considerably more.

They asked before about my income and as I don't have a relationship with his children and provide a house and pay all the bills with a relatively small contribution from my husband (I don't mind this) I will not divulge any information to anyone apart from HMRC.

We have only just got back together after a separation and after just a few short months the CSA are knocking on the door again.

I'm so desperately worried and the tension is unbearable. I can't seem to find out for definite what happens now and how long this will all take.
It also seems very coincidental that we hear nothing in the past 18 months and now as we seemed to have worked out our differences it starts again

Just one other thing he doesn't deal with any of the correspondence himself, he has always had a friend deal with it who quite frankly is useless, I accidentally saw a letter he wrote to the CSA once and it was full of inaccuracies and playing on a heart condition. This bloke does have a habit of rubbing people up the wrong way and can be quite confrontational and yet doesn't know what he is talking about half the time.

I was a business woman for many years who is now retired so I'm not stupid but this is something that I know nothing about and need guidance as everything I say according to him is rubbish and his friends advice is gospel
Thank you far any help in advance

Caz3121

be better posting on the Child Support board here > http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=140

indesisiv

It may be worth posting this here maybe get more help

babyblade41

Thank you so much both of you, I might get it right some day !!!

FBaby

It sounds like it is probably a complete mess after years of incompetence probably on both sides. Trying to unfold what is actually owed telling the above into consideration will I exist be extremely tedious if at all possible. Even worse with dealing with csa1. You will have to go back from the start gather all correspondence and read on the rules to ensure they were applied properly before challenging their figures.