Custody Fraud!!!!

[Yoda77]

My ex partner has asked me to put one of my children into his custody!! My daughter would not go and live with him!!! It is all so that he can get somewhere to live!!!! He would also need to claim child benefit for her, and tax credits!!! which I will loose out on!!!

I have said no, but he tells me that if I cannot do this for him, he will not be able to have the children for much longer at the weekends..

I wonder if anybody may know the law on this sort of fraud, and what the sentancing could be, so that I can go back and tell him, so that he may hopefully stop bribing me to do it!!!

A parents need never see their child and plenty choose never to see them so yes it is entirely his choice if he never sees them again or at weekends even if it makes life harder for you.

How old is your daughter? Sometimes children benefit from living half the time with both parents. Children of 13+ tend to get a say in where they live.

I would not really call what he has said custody fraud. Simply refuse to let the child be moved and then he will have to make an application to court if he wants to persist with that. You and he both are entitled to choose never to see your children. If you both took the same decision then the children would have to go into care but you cannot be forced to have them or at particular times and lots of parents choose not to be involved at all.

Well it isnt custody fraud. Its benefit fraud. So look up sentences for that and show him!

We have 2 children together, he has parental rights for one and not the other, ages 8 and 9. I also have a daughter of 14, that he bought up as his own since she was 3!! I would never stop them from seeing him, but feel that i am being put into a very difficult position, as they may see him less now!! and the only looser will be me!! I refuse to loose my children!!

That's terrible !!!!!!

The only loser is not you, i can't believe you wrote that, the losers are your children! Not seeing their father. If that is his choice, then he Will have to live with the knowledge that he has seriously hurt his children. And that they may refuse to see him when they are older.

as I understand your OP, he is not really asking for a child to live with him, he wants to pretend that she is, so he becomes eligible for housing?

as wannabe says, that's benefit fraud.

However plenty of separated parents will find after April 2013 that they can't get housing benefit for a 2 bedroom flat if they have no child living with them; and only one parent can claim HB in respect of the child's residence; so there will be many other parents trying to find ways to hold onto a home big enough to allow their children to stay with them at weekends or whenver contact takes place.

I agree with Pendipity.

You do not lose out at all! If you dont get your free time at the weekend, well thats parenthood. Tough.