Child Support

A question about : CSA Attachment of earnings, bye bye job!

Hi to the forum.

I have had an attachment of earnings for a reasonable £230 per month. Imagine my surprise when I received my wageslip yesterday to find that Legal and Trade collections are now also dipping in through a court order for £450 for previous csa arrears.

So I'm having £680 robbed from my wages every month.

Seeing as I only take home £1100 per Month, I'm left with £420 per month to supposedly live on. That averages out over 52 weeks at £96 per week!

A question about : Joint custody

I'm not sure if this subject has been brought up before(probably has but there's too many post to go through!)

I have joint custody of my children and see them exactly 50% of the time over the year...4 days one week and 3 the next.

My ex wife gets all the child benefit and all the tax credits ....I used to get Ј40 a month but they told me sometime ago that they have a different way of calculating it now and that child tax credits can't go to both parents, so my ex got my Ј40 plus I had to pay back everything they had paid me!

A question about : Claiming benefits

I'm reluctant to make this post, because I'm sure it must have popped up before, but if it has, I can't find it.

It's just to say that if you are the parent of a child with special needs, then get stuck in now to the benefits system, as soon as possible.

In order to do this, the most useful thing you can have is a formal diagnosis of your child's needs.

A question about : CSA acronyms

Every so often we see newbys asking what various things mean, and even people like me who have been dealing with the CSA for a few years now get occassionally stumped.

Suggestions for additions welcome and I will add them to this list:

A question about : Voluntary Payments

Some weeks ago NACSA was approached by a client who had been involved in a thread from this group regarding the allocation of voluntary payments. It would appear that certain individuals on this group had been told by CSA of new legislation stating how even those direct payments that are shown to be Child Support will not automatically be considered as voluntary payment. We contested this, but agreed to raise the issue to CSA Policy unit for their confirmation.

A question about : Child Maintenance, when does it stop?

I was wondering at what age of child does child maintenance stop?

My Ex pays the CSA who pay me from his wages. It gets taken from his wages direct from a court order.

Does it stop when my daughter turns 16 or 18?

A question about : Negative Paternity Test

My husband has just discovered (DNA Test) that he is not the biological father of a 10 year old he has been supporting financially since birth (over Ј30k in CSA payments) and he visits us every fortnight.

We have been told this is a very complex case and we realise there are emotional and financial aspects to this news. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Any advice would be appreciated.

A question about : Company Directors & CSA

My ex-husband is not paying maintenance for our daughter and so I recently approached the CSA for help. He runs a limited company and is a company director. According to the CSA, his accounts show a weekly income of Ј140 so the CSA have assessed that he needs to pay me Ј6 a week ...... he lives in a Ј900,000 house, drives an Audi TT, has had six holidays so far this year that I know of (one of which was six weeks in America), has a gardener, a cleaner and is currently paying someone to decorate his house.