Help needed finding good lawyer to contest CSA settlement

ukmarkdell

Hi everyone,

I have a friend who has been contacted by the CSA basically they are looking for more money.

The CSA have, IMO cocked up the amounts charged and have not taken into account additional payments made to his former wife so i would like any advice on a good, preferably London based, laywers who can handle this for him.

thanks
Mark 

swingaloo

I would imagine a London based lawyer will cost him treble the amount he is trying to contest.

Has he worked out how much he should be paying.?

What are the additional payments to a former wife, are they child support?

Hoenir

ukmarkdell said:

The CSA have, IMO cocked up the amounts charged and have not taken into account additional payments made to his former wife 

The ex wife appears to understand the system better. 

ukmarkdell

swingaloo said:

I would imagine a London based lawyer will cost him treble the amount he is trying to contest.

Has he worked out how much he should be paying.?

What are the additional payments to a former wife, are they child support?

He has paid her in total £113,000 plus she got the house plus £100,000 that he gave her to pay off the mortgage which he transferred onto the mortgage on my house 

He hasn't worked it out as yet I am helping him go through the paperwork to find out how they came to their decision.

They are now looking for more money on the basis of a lighthearted caption on a Facebook post he made some time ago where my friend posted that he was busy working, The pic was of him lying on the grass in the Summer, he actually wasn't working as he was under the doctors and had been off work due to the stress of another legal case over the theft of a classic car that he had to bring about a private prosecution to get a conviction for theft and fraud (he finally won, sentancing in September)

These nutters want to bleed him dry 

swingaloo

What he has paid her and her getting the house are irrelevant to the amount of child support he has to pay. Nothing he has already given her has any bearing at all on maintenance.

HMRC provide a persons annual income and child support is based on that income along with how many children maintenance is payable for, how many nights the parent without care has the children, It is not based on a Facebook photo. 

ukmarkdell

swingaloo said:

What he has paid her and her getting the house are irrelevant to the amount of child support he has to pay. Nothing he has already given her has any bearing at all on maintenance.

HMRC provide a persons annual income and child support is based on that income along with how many children maintenance is payable for, how many nights the parent without care has the children, It is not based on a Facebook photo. 

thanks for the reply i have manged to find a lawyer that will help him with the appeal the reason i mentioned the photo is that she saw it and concluded that he was working, when he is not, and HMRC can validate that, so she is now looking for more child maintenance - I'll post here who things go