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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sparks on February 06, 2003, 06:19:36 AM
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No detail but I'm shortly to be getting to grips with the business end of the CSA. I'm not looking to escape my responsibilties so I've been looking round the web and phoned once but apparently these people are complete A-holes.
Does anyone have real time experience of dealing with them and if so can you give me any pointers.
Thanks
Sparks
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Can't really offer any advice per se, but I was seeing a girl who was involved with the CSA. She came to a personal arrangement with the guy involved and bypassed the CSA entirely - it was financially better for both of them that way, apparently. I split up with her a while ago, but I should think the CSA is still none the wiser.
Doesn't the mother have to give the CSA your details before any action can be taken? I assume that's already been done.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
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Story of my Uncle.........Royal Navy Fleet Chief, divorced his wife cos she was messing around while he was at sea. He was awarded custody of the children (3 of em) but decided to allow his ex-wife to retain custody since he was away so much and paid her maintenance instead.
10 years later (2 of the kids now adults and he's now retired from the Navy) his ex-wife gets advised by the CSA that he's underpaying and that she can claim arrears of around 25,000 pounds ($45k?).
No way in hell could he afford that so he simply claimed custody of his youngest daughter who had to move from Callington to Plymouth (30 miles away) and live with her Dad until she was 16.
The upshot was that instead of him paying more money to her he stopped paying completely and she then hadda pay him maintenance. :D. Oh and my little cousine was distinctly unimpressed with both parents by the end of it all.
(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)
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I'm guessing CSA is not = Confederate States of America, or Confederate States Army?
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Hortlund, CSA is the Child Support Agency of the UK.
http://www.csa.gov.uk/
Daniel
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Dowding - you're right but my wife draws disability benefit so I'm automatically in the cross wires.
Personal arrangements - even if made via solicitors - mean nothing to CSA - they over-rule them.
Looking for anyone with experience of assessment levels and negotiating with them??
Annoying thing is my wife and I are on OK terms at the moment and could sort out the finances by ourselves - the CSA (who are supposed to be there to help) could actually turn this very nasty. Good 'ol Goernment.
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Originally posted by Sparks
Personal arrangements - even if made via solicitors - mean nothing to CSA - they over-rule them..
Hi sparks,
Not strictly true, When I met my wife we were both working our way through the usual nasties of divorce, Hell my ex even took the lawnmower but moved into a flat (Must of been one hell of a window box).
Anyway...., both my (current) wife and I felt the CSA's assessment of what her ex should pay towards their son was as bit (a lot) over the top. We discussed it at length with her ex (Who wanted to contribute, just not quite as much as was being requested). We then came to a verbal agreement of how much.
We all arranged a meeting and with no solicitors involvment whatsoever the CSA agreed that no payment was required at all. All they needed was a signed document from Joanne that no payments would ever be sought in the future. (i.e it was irreversable).
Your right, the CSA can be a complete pain (The kind of people who arrive after the battle to shoot the wounded). But give it a go, it sounds like you and your ex both want what's best for the child(ren). The actual sequence of events are a bit hazy now but if you want I'll sit down with Joanne and try to work out exactly what was involved.
TTFn
snafu
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Sparks, one of my friends works for the CSA. I'm sure he would agree that the organisation is staffed by amazinhunks, with a very few exceptions :)
If there's anything specific you need advice on, let me know and I'll have a word.
Vladd