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Securing CSA payments

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apples4chocolate · 08/06/2014 21:48

My ex-husband has always done his utmost not to pay CSA or the maintenance payments set out in the financial order. It took me 9 months for the CSA to set up an attachment of earnings order. I am taking him back to court for an enforcement order. However, he has now been fired. Do any of you know how, when he finds a new job, whether the CSA can chase him again? Will I have to start all over again with the application for a new attachment of earnings order? He will not tell me when he has a new job, and certainly not the employer's details. Can the CSA find this information? Also, as part of the financial order he was supposed to pay a percentage of his bonus to the children. He said he received no bonus, but his ex-employer said he was paid a bonus of between £15,000 and £30,000. I told the CSA and they did nothing about it - I thought bonus was included in the CSA payments. I'm in a bit of a panic as without these payments I can't afford mortgage and food! I have 3 children, all are his. Any help/advice would be fantastic as trying to deal with the CSA is the most demoralising, frustrating experience. Thank you for your time.

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oopsadaisyme · 10/06/2014 09:26

My situation is slightly different - we were together for 7 years and he pays not one penny since he left 6 months ago, a total struggle to even afford food, so I know where your coming from with that -

Unfortunately, with the CSA now not taking new cases (it is now the CMS, who are more useless than CSA even!), I would strongly advise you contact them asap to discuss your options before court, it's all changed (because my ex is off the radar so to speak, they are now doing a 'collect and pay' service? Which they actually charge you for!?) -

Quite possibly if you do go back to court the changes in the CSA/CMS will come into account, I'm not even sure the attachment of earnings is still a possibility for you - even with a court order in place, it would have been for his previous employer and his past finance availability?

CMS have also told me that they possibly, because of his occupation and me having no home contact details or telephone number, cannot enforce payments from him - even with me giving them his national insurance number and where he works from primarily -

Give CMS a call just to check out the rule changes??

Hope any of that helps and really hope you can get it sorted x

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