Can he contest collect and pay

[donnalouise1977]

Letter from CMA co forming collect and pay will start on 19th December. Before ex was told to pay £288 but now it says £270 yet he owes me nearly 1000 in arrears.

I'm confused enough about the figures and if I'll ever get arrears but can he contest the collect and pay?

From what I was told seems like they get chance after chance to pay direct.

I would ring Monday and ask

donna are you me?!?!
I’m in same boat, except my collect and pay is due to start 19th November. I don’t think they can contest it. I was told in the run up that exh had been written too and given opportunity to pay and he ignored it so it has gone ahead. If he had spoken to them at this stage then he would have been given a chance at a payment plan agreement to stick to (which would have annoyed me as he’s never stuck to any agreements in the past which is why we’re at this stage).
His payments are also lower on the collect and pay, I was told it was because they can’t add the arrears on but they do chase them separately for that.
I know someone who got almost £2k in arrears in one go taken from her ex’s bank account as cms only have to ensure the nrp have a certain percentage left to live on. But I also know people who waited years.
I’m hoping that I’m in the first category as dd could really do with that £1k she is owed from her —deadbeat— Dad.

Thanks for the replies.

I will phone them tomorrow as he's just moved house as well so I'll update them with his new address not that that will make a difference as he works for the NHS so easy enough I would hope to deduct from his earnings.

It's gone very quiet on the contact front so I'm
Guessing he's seen the letters.

Tbh I wouldn’t update them with his new address.
From my experience any time my children’s father started a new job or changed address, they started the process of sending him letters and phone calls all over again when prior we had already done it militiamen times and got ignored.
A few times they claimed he didn’t not have my bank details as he said he didn’t receive the letter, although every month he would put £0.10 in my bank to just take the piss.

Anyway if the don’t know where he lives then they will be sending out letters to an old address and he won’t have a chance to respond and that will speed up the process. If the case has been open for a while, even if he try’s to appeal the collect and pay it would prove that he already knew about the CM situation and was down to him to make the change of address not you.

Good luck !

Tashethan he put 10p into your account each month just to piss you off?? That's a special kind on c#nt. What I don't get is it's for THEIR children and from friends situations the dads can go out and have a life other than the 12 hours they have their children but if the mum makes plans for when she hasn't got the kids she is a shit mum and doesn't care.

Good luck to both of you.

The award for unique C*NT would definately go to to him hands down!!

The £0.10 pays for a new carrier bag every shopping trip!
I don’t need his money anyway not that he knows that but I’ll continue to hound him with CM just because it’s principle, men shouldn’t be allowed to just not pay for their kids !! Thanks for the luck though, appreciated !