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my ex says he earns £156 a week.....

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  • dorry_2
    dorry_2 Posts: 1,427 Forumite
    hi fruglass, :wave:


    my hubby works for tax office. you should definetly report this, not only is he fiddling you, but he won't be paying the correct amount of tax either:mad: why sould all of us pay the right amount and he gets away with it!!???? i have paying £100 a week tax!!! :eek:

    get on to tax offices asap and tell them, they will investitage:rotfl:

    good luck x
    'If you judge people, you have no time to love them'
    Mother Teresa :D
  • Acehole_2
    Acehole_2 Posts: 202 Forumite
    Well she probably hates you for leaving for another Woman, screwing up the family unit. If I were her, I'd screw you over tooI agree she would be unhappy at my leaving but as with all relationships there are 2 sides to every story, i wasnt happy, and this cascaded to the kids.was it right for me to stay for another 10 years until the kids grew up? maybe, maybe not. I chose to leave. I left her not the children and we have them half the time each. I dont think trying to finacially punish me for the rest of the children growing up is right. As i asked, when is enough, enough.
  • TheWaltons_3
    TheWaltons_3 Posts: 1,203 Forumite
    Acehole wrote: »
    Well she probably hates you for leaving for another Woman, screwing up the family unit. If I were her, I'd screw you over tooI agree she would be unhappy at my leaving but as with all relationships there are 2 sides to every story, i wasnt happy, and this cascaded to the kids.was it right for me to stay for another 10 years until the kids grew up? maybe, maybe not. I chose to leave. I left her not the children and we have them half the time each. I dont think trying to finacially punish me for the rest of the children growing up is right. As i asked, when is enough, enough.


    Well you did the right thing by the children by signing the house over and paying her good money, and I suppose she sees you as a soft touch.

    Are you through the CSA or not?

    On the new system you may be better off.
  • Acehole_2
    Acehole_2 Posts: 202 Forumite
    didnt go through the CSA, perhaps I should have looking back, and yes there maybe an element of guilt on my part for leaving. the kids that is, not her.I just think sometimes the books need balancing a little more equally for men and women, I can see why a chap wouldnt want to give his money to a lazy cow, sponger, who has another man, but his children should still come first
  • Banana23
    Banana23 Posts: 198 Forumite
    frugallass wrote: »
    my ex has paid me £20 a week for at least the last 6 years and refused to increase his payments to me - I contacted the CSA in the hope that the payments would increase to something a bit more realistic, they came back to me and said that his net income is £156 a week.......therefore assessing him as only having to pay me £15 a week

    1. He is employed as a bricklayer (a good one at that)
    2. He has a 3 bed house (with mortgage)
    3. He owns a new Ford Focus ST
    4. He recently moved his (latest) girlfriend and her three kids into the house
    5. He sees our 15 year old daughter approx twice a year (we were never married)

    I have good reason to believe that his employer has "fiddled" his wages so that the CSA think he is on a rubbish wage

    What do the CSA do when a decision is appealed, do they check the NRP's wages again?

    I'm going to contact the inland revenue and inform them that I believe that his employer has "fiddled" his wage slips and ask that they be investigated

    I can't believe that he would do this, at the end of the day his daughter suffers, her school lunches alone cost me £10 a week

    I'm very tempted to stop him seeing her until he has applied for and obtained legal parental responsibility - she has spent the last 3 weeks at his house, and she told me her dad took 5 days off work to be with her, whereas his girlfriend took two weeks off her work !

    Has anyone else had a similar experience?

    Any advice would really be gratefully received - thank you x

    I can absolutely sympathise with you! My ex pays £6.43 a week for our daughter.
    He's a self employed plasterer, has a van for working, was able to re-mortgage his house and bought a 1 year old Audi TT a few months ago. Yet he declared to the CSA that he earns less than £100 a week! He tries everything to get out of paying, because - just like Master 666 - he thinks he is paying for me (well some people are just born thick, it's not really their fault ;) ).
    I've rung the CSA several times and they replied repeatedly that it needs to be me the pwc who proves that he's lying. Yeah, I got no problem doing that however, the csa will then take this statement and show it him first so he can defend himself. I haven't got a problem with him defending himself but the csa doesn't realise that this will just cause a much bigger rift between all of us! If I have well grounded suspicsiouns, then it should be the CSA who assess the nrp and prove that he declared his income falsly! Unfortunately a depature can only be done if their valuables total over 60K.
    So I've created a petition for all the pwc's (and other people who support my opinion) who are in the same position.

    http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/selfemployednrps/

    I hope a lot of people will support me (Master, don't you go and jump the queue!!:rotfl:)
    Please don't forget, if you sign, you'll get an email in which you have to verify your signature again, otherwise it doesn't count.

    FRUGALLASS, I wish you the best of luck, let's hope he'll get done by the tax people and will have the pleasure of sharing a cell with Master!! :beer:
  • aussiesbird
    aussiesbird Posts: 287 Forumite
    I have signed your petition Banana23 and am very happy to support you. I sympathise with your situation and wish you the best of luck in getting your ex found out and made to pay what he should be.
    I can only please one person per day.
    Today is not your day.
    Tomorrow doesn't look too good either.
  • Banana23
    Banana23 Posts: 198 Forumite
    :T You're a star! Hope your situation gets sorted equally !!!
  • TheWaltons_3
    TheWaltons_3 Posts: 1,203 Forumite
    lmfao @ Banana's comment

    MASTER 666
  • looby75
    looby75 Posts: 23,387 Forumite
    Acehole wrote: »
    I agree she would be unhappy at my leaving but as with all relationships there are 2 sides to every story, i wasnt happy, and this cascaded to the kids.was it right for me to stay for another 10 years until the kids grew up? maybe, maybe not. I chose to leave. I left her not the children and we have them half the time each. I dont think trying to finacially punish me for the rest of the children growing up is right. As i asked, when is enough, enough.
    Maybe if you had had the decency to end one relationship before starting another you ex might see you as a decent human and treat you with a bit of respect. As it is you made your bed, now lie in it.
  • kelloggs36
    kelloggs36 Posts: 7,712 Forumite
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    Acehole wrote: »
    got to larf at some of this ...I left my wife for another women 5 years ago, we have 2 children,I left with only the cloths on my back. I signed the house over to her, left with 10 grand credit card dept, and gave her 700 pounds a month out of my 1400 for the kids, and I lived in a caravan,I have them on a monday, wednesday, and every other weekend.She still believes I should give her more money ? and buy the kids cloths. she now has another bloke and is engaged to him, how much is enough for some women ? ps yes she does work too

    If what you say is true then you are paying over the odds as by law you should be paying 20% of your net income not 50% as you claim to be paying. In your situation I would be paying the 20% and telling her where to go when she asks for more!!! Oh, and you should also have a 3/7 reduction out of that 20% for the shared care. Her new fiance is, however, irrelevant to this situation - the children aren't his and he should not be expected to make any financial contribution - although most do anyway as they are part of the same household.
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