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The CSA is an arm of the Dept of Work and Pensions (DWP). Speaking plainly, after your children have been legally kidnapped (OK, let’s admit it, this is what it is), they will be held to continual legal ransom insomuch as you will have to pay your ex a fixed fee, called Child Maintenance (many fathers just refer to "Extortion"). This fixed fee is meant for the childs upkeep, although it is unclear to me how paying your ex’s mortgage or funding her shopping or boozing habits helps the children. Child Maintenance is often paid through the CSA and their rules include that a woman can claim Child Maintenance even when she is looking after the child less than half the time, or even if she never looks after the child! Certainly it is ludicrous that the money you will be forced to pay her may well be used by her to put your children into day care, when they would have been better off with you, and you could have better used that money to do something good with them. Always remember:
You should be aware that previously in the divorce process you could argue than the man needs at least some money to provide for the children during the time they spend with him, but you can't use that agruement with the CSA – they really can take everything away from you. The CSA does not have to take your commitments (mortgage etc) into account so you may well be reduced to homelessness! It is very hard to find out what your rights are as the main organization touted around as impartial advisor; Child Maintenance Options (“we provide impartial information and support to help both parents make informed choices about child maintenance”) also belongs to the DWP and strictly toes the official line. The CSA is an extremely confrontational organization. Its web site boasts of how it goes to extremes to persecute men. No cases against women are illustrated, nor does the CSA publish any stories about how the CSA is responsive to the needs of their clients. Even men who are conscientiously paying but move house are liable for a £1.000 fine if they don’t inform the CSA of their new address within 7 days. The CSA boasts that to trace men and establish their address it uses mobile phone providers, credit agencies, building societies and its agents apparently even sink so low as to question newspaper boys!
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| The e-book "The Vertical Playing Field" is available in Adobe PDF format (for reading on PC or Mac computers and most other devices) or Sony LRF format (for reading on a Sony Reader PRS-500). I ask for a symbolic contribution of £10.75 but remember! By following any of the tips presented you may well save thousands of pounds, so don't try to save peanuts now and end up spoiling your chances later! Good Luck ... you'll need it. Dr. Robert Mellor. |
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