Child maintenance - Is there any way around the limited company thing

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So EXH was paying £450 / month for 2 teenage DCs. All done through CMS.

He is an abusive narcissist who was livid that I had gone through CMS.

just had reassessment this year, and because his income was £2500 a WEEK he was assessed as having to pay 900/month. I couldn’t quite believe it.

but - naturally - he asked for a mandatory reconsideration.Which has just been done. New amount = £129/month. Because he has made his business a limited company.

i know what many get less, but we’re in an expensive part of the country and am really worried about how to manage. The letter says I can appeal, but how? I cannot communicate with him, far less provide evidence of his income, assets etc.

Has anyone dealt with this? What did you do?

I agree. It’s totally wrong. Wonder if there are any support groups/ people campaigning for change?

Don't phone them. Send a message in the portal. Screenshot companies house.

No it won't. But the cms will only check for them and massive pension contributions.

Even if on the hmrc you can't see anything, you must still ask the cms to apply a variation and check for dividend payments or large pension payments. They found £45k that mine was hiding but you have to ask them to do it.

Thanks for this.

This gets to me. Do these men not realize its their children that are suffering?

Once accidentally got pregnant with a wealthy man who gleefully informed me that he was happy I was pregnant because it'd 1/2 the money he was giving to his ex for his son.

I had an abortion

You can put details of ‘diversion of income’ on the CMS portal now.
Does Companies House show ‘cash at bank’, if it does sent that to CMS.
I had a tribunal in 2021 arranged by CMS, after 3 years of nil payment. Sigh.

Cms are useless I've told them about him hiding income, business in another person's name etc but as its not his name mentioned on companies house they don't want to know