child support

[kadali1966]

a quick question a friends ex only told the csa about 1 job but between him & his new wife have 3 different jobs is she entitled to more money for the children
any advise is welcome

[MORELLO]

CSA are useless. My partners ex told them he earned 'x' amount when in reality he earns much more due to the amount of overtime he works.

They don't look any further than the information provided.

You're better off negotiating yourself, or taking legal advice...

[Pippa68]

If he is being assessed under the new rules, his new wifes earnings are not taken into consideration.

Actually, this is can apply to old rules as well as the CSA insist they only take the new partners earnings/income into consideration to make sure the one who pays CSA can manage to do so. I find this rather dubious.

My husband is assessed under old rules and maintenance I receive for my two eldest children is in the assessment ~ I don't think this is right, but there you go! I worked too, just to make sure we had enough money to live on.

Personally I think that only the 'absent parent' should be assessed, as it's their child who maintenance is paid for.

[FlowerPetal]

Pippa, i agree but when the 'absent parent' is living with somebody who earns enough for them to get a mortgage and they are also able to go on holiday, run a 4x4, buy the 3 other children expensive gifts/clothes/shoes etc AND she is able to have part time temp jobs to make sure she has enough of her own money to buy her drugs and drink, but my s/son has to make do with the �5;00 per fornight we are getting - life isnt so fair then.
sorry - bad experience with CSA and 'absent parent' malarky