CSA Question

[AKP79]

Need an explanation on something that I'm finding quite frustrating... If my ex partner is now living with and engaged to someone else who has two children from a previous marriage, why are they taken into consideration when applying through the CSA? His new partner is financially very well off and her ex partner pays over the odds for the children including covering private school fees etc. My ex partner contributes very little to her mortgage etc so outgoings aren't huge for him. I find it very confusing that her children have to be considered, despite the fact they are provided for very well, yet her financial position isn't. Am I missing something?

Ok to be honest HeadDoctor we simply aren't going to agree. But rather than continuously picking each others posts apart maybe we should just agree to disagree since neither of our opinions are going to change anytime soon and as much as I fundamentally disagree with the majority of your posts you also do mine.

I don't see the point in rehashing an issue that isn't ever going to be resolved to be in line everyone's expectations or beliefs.

Should proof read when I'm on my phone - I'm sure you can figure out the missing words

The money for "someone else's children" has to come from somewhere. The state and the CSA says that it has to come from the NRPs pocket unless you are saying the new partner should stay living alone and costing the state considerably more in tax credits and benefits until the NRPs children are adults just in case there is a small deduction to cover the NRP and new partners essential bills that might affect the NRPs children's swimming lessons but not their ballet lessons and piano lessons...

The NRP would have to be earning a fair whack for a reduction to make a considerable dent.

And again, I say all of this actually having been the RP whose maintenance was massively reduced due to choices made by my exH and as a woman who has actual experience of being on a low income and deciding the best course of action for the future with my (now) husband and all of our children. Being able to provide a stable family environment, demonstrating a healthy loving relationship, building proper relationships between step and half siblings rather than being two separate families who met up every now and again was all part of that consideration.

Wow, wakey, could you be any more patronising?

Not bitter, but I do feel protective of the small amount of money that the CSA allow us to keep for the children who live here, especially when we are paying about 8 times that amount in covering his ex wife's debts.

No, head, childcare is not covered mostly by tax credits. Not by a long shot. The max is 70% or a fixed figure depending on number of children. Goes nowhere in some parts of the country. You do have to be earning very little to get the max and it drops off very quickly when you do earn.

Oh she absolutely can fedup. It becomes amusing after a while.

HeadDoctor I think a bit like Alba I will just agree to differ with your view I am fairly sure we are coming at this from very different angles and are very unlikely to meet in the middle.

HeadDoctor Unless i'm being naive here, I don't see how my partner is paying more towards the children with his ex than our own children? If , for instance, my partner was to pay 20% of his earnings to his ex then that leaves us with the remaining 80%. Either way, I've never been petty enough to sit down and work out down to the penny how much more his or my children were receiving. They may well get more but I work and none of the children seem to be better off than the other and we're not struggling financially.
Also, we're lucky that we deal with an ex wife that is willing to work with us not against.