child maintenance

[Ghekogiddy]

Hi

Some advice please.

Me and my ex have had private agreement regarding maintenance. My oh has recently moved in and we got engaged. My ex phoned me up to say oh congrats but now we need to discuss finances as i am cutting down ur maintenance. He is doing this purely because my oh has moved in. We are not minted by any means.

Now my ex has no change in his circumstances, works same hours, infact still doing all the overtime he has been doing for at least seven years. He has pots of money in several places and pays about 20 pound a week in rent due to perks of the job.

Can he get away with this?

Can i also ask are these pots of money taken into account when calculating CSA and is regular overtime taken into account also.

Have you asked him directly why he wants your OH to pay for his child?
does he love his child and otherwise have a role in his/her life? CSA takes into account overtime if it shows on wage slips....good luck!

I don't think the CSA takes savings into account unless they're either generating so much interest they make a noticeable difference to his overall income, or he's dipping into them so much they're giving him a demonstrably higher standard of living than his wages will support.

Regular overtime will be taken into account. When the CSA contacts him they'll ask him to provide a few month's worth of payslips to verify his income. The CSA can also contact his employer directly to check this.

He does have contact with her yes.

Good to know re overtime cos he has been putting his basic wage into the calculator minus all the overtime.

These pots of savings are things i didnt even know about whilst together. He can be quite sneaky and manipulating at times.

I presume they will take the ultra low rent into account too?

Don't want to go down CSA route but will do if i have to.

They don't pay any attention to outgoings except for pension contributions. They just take his net pay, calculate 15% of that (assuming it's just one child) and proclaim that as the amount of maintenance he need pay. Although if he has her overnight for 52 nights a year then they will reduce the maintenance on a pro-rata basis.

Thanks Snorbs. She hasnt stayed overnight for 52 nights so okay there. There have been a number of times she has not stayed overnight.

Annoying thing is him only doing this what seems out of spite. Will see what he comes up with on the weekend.

If he's sitting on unused capital he'll be assumed to have a set income from it-I think at 8% but I'm sat at home at the moment so can't look it up. There's a huge list of income that they don't take into account unless you apply for a variation. Look on the CSA website for this.