CSA - Will they take into account a spouses earnings?

[Toothache]

My friend has been chasing her idiot ex since her 2.5yr old ds was born. He's not interested in seeing his son and has only been paying £2,50 per week in support.

My friend knows he is very wealthy and has spent a year collecting evidence, photos of his £300k house and his £90k car for example.

He fiddles the tax and has only declared he earns minimum wage and the CSA left it up to HER to prove otherwise!!

He's been contacted by them now and she's worried that he'll just say that his wife earns all the money...... how will that affect her entitlement?

he owes her £20k now!!

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Hi Toothy.

No, don't think it makes any difference what the spouse earns, as it is his responsibility.

Sounds like a bloody typical CSA response though.

no idea - but what a wanker

yes
we ahd a case in court
if he is marreid it hink they do
they can put an attcahement oreder ont he hosue too

we had to decdie tif it was willful evasion of neligent

he owed thosueands
things bought fo the kdis unoffically dont count too

It would make a difference but not very much.

They will take her wages into account to off set against things like the morgage/rent so it he claims he needs £500 a month to pay housing they will tell him that they will allow him £250 a month towards it as his other half should be contributing to it.

He will have to prove that she earns all the money as his partner wil have to hand over all her earnings details.

Thanks.

He got the letter on Monday with copies of all the photos etc. She got a phone call from the Police on Tuesday saying he'd brought a harassment charge on her! He said she had hired a Private Detective! He may as well have admitted it..... he was basically saying she hired a PI and he found out the truth.

Anyway, once she explained to the Police they were pissing themselves!
She said to them that the only thing he was in fear of was his wallet.

We all joined in today to find out where he works.... and did!!!! So CSA can now contact his work.

Cheers cod.....

And everyone!

Keep it coming, I'm going to print this thread out for her.

that last bit made me laugh about the coppers.

In normal circumstances no, they only only take the earnings of the absent parent into account but in a case like this where he's paying next to nothing when he quite clearly could pay a fair amount I'm sure it'd be different - as cod's first post on this thread showed

See the third bullet-point in 'grounds' here

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They can take into account spouses earnings, I only know this because my ex tried to get out of paying any maintenance ( in which he has suceeded) because of my dp earnings. when I enquired with the CSA if he could do they said they can take into consideration spouses earnings.

This isn't what you want to hear but if men don't want to pay maintence and they have the means to fiddle their income they can get away with it.

I spent a year two years in homeless hostels and sleeping on couches with dd before meeting dp while my ex (dd father) lived in a £1.7 million pound house, earnt a fortune and paid a pittance. At the moment he pays £5 a week when he can be bothered.

interesting - bump!