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Child maintenance

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Diyphil1 · 01/06/2020 12:27

Hello,
My partners ex has been completely and utterly over the top urging covid. He breached the court order and kept her son (my stepson) for an extra week just to exercise more control.
It cost me £1500 through our solicitor to get him returned. He has then given my partner absolutely no choice but to agree to a week on, week off during April and May. My partner didn’t agree to it but like I said, she was given no choice and feared that he would again not return her son.
Now, he has instigated this and has now emailed our solicitor saying that he has cancelled CMS payments for those two months. He did this a couple of summers ago and has even tried to reduce the payment by claiming he was responsible for another child. This was dealt with very quickly and proved untrue.
He has even said he will demand a financial review of both me and my wife to clarify whether the money he pays is necessity or greed on our part.
Sorry for the rant but CMS have told us via email to wait 12 weeks. Does anybody out there have any advice? Can he do this? He has been paying maintenance through CMS since 2004 but will do anything at all to stop paying it.

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Kezmum14 · 01/06/2020 12:35

He sounds like an arse with how he is conducting himself. Although if he has the child more than a set number of nights or 50% of the time then I’m guessing the payments would be reduced or stopped (Maybe completely wrong) especially if you both have the child an equal number of Days/weeks. At least you are already going through CMS so anything that is owed will be paid!! Still frustrating but possibly equally so for him if he genuinely wants 50/50 contact.

Sharpandshineyteeth · 01/06/2020 12:39

Since 2004? So the child is 16? Surely it’s up to the child now what they want to happen? The number of days the other parent has the child is calculated throughout the year I think so he can’t just stop CMS for a month or two, it needs to be calculated properly

Nymeriastark1 · 01/06/2020 12:51

Since 2004? So they're at least 16, If the chils wanted to see their dad why didn't he just come over? The mum can't physically stop them?

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