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Csa and access

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datingthedevil · 20/08/2012 12:09

Hi all,

Please could you give me some advice.

I'm 23 weeks pregnant and just split up with my abusive partner (the father).

He has said he wants nothing to do with either of us and wants no contact ever.

I have been recommended NOT to put his name on the birth certificate.

My question is: if I make a claim through the csa is he able to obtain access?

I really don't want my baby spending time with someone who has verbally, financially and physically abused me and his family are no better (his sister has threatened me twice).

I am happy for his mother to visit and spend time with her grandson but I know he will not allow this (he has told me he will tell her that she can't see him). To be honest, I don't think she will want to as he has told everyone I tricked him into pregnancy.

If someone could tell me if csa = contact I'd really appreciate it.
And even if I don't claim on the csa can he get access?

I'm not a bitch, he's just so awful and a terrible father (from what I've seen of how he treats his other two children and what he allows them to get up to).

Many thanks

C x

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Collaborate · 20/08/2012 12:11

Any claim he makes for contact to the child is neither strengthened by him paying maintenance or weakened by him not.

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LadySybildeChocolate · 20/08/2012 12:12

No. Maintenance and contact are two very separate things.

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ShirleyKnot · 20/08/2012 12:15

The CSA only deal with financial maintenance.

I'm not whether not putting his name on the BC will affect a claim though (I have never been asked to show my childrens' BC to the CSA though)

As far as access is concerned, if he decides to fight you for contact then that will be completely separate from any financial arrangements.

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whatthewhatthebleep · 20/08/2012 12:34

he can deny the child is his and you would need a paternity test verified before you could claim maintenance....that would probably require a legal intervention to order him to take this test....

It has no bearing on him having any contact though....without him having 'Parental Rights and Responsibilities'...he could never demand access from you....he would have to take you to court and you would then be ableto explain why you were against him having access....a judge would then decide (the more evidence you have for denying access, etc...obv the better for your case)

You will likely need to discuss with a solicitor what your best course of action is going to be....
If the paternity test is ordered and proven....then he will have to pay maintenance....this has nothing to do with access though....thats totally seperate

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