My son is 13 nearly 14.
for the last 13 years his dad has paid me minimal child maintenance. Contact got less and less and effort has never really been there.
I decided to take him to the CSA as my son is getting ever more expensive to support as his grows up.
initially dad wouldn’t engage, the csa contacted me to see if I wanted to go ahead with a collection option I declined hoping dad would do the right thing.
dad has since made several attempts to reduce his payment by claiming he has our son more than 1 night a week and adding travels expenses to the claim, which is also incorrect as we both do one way each.
i now have a new application to the claim in which dad is now saying he has another child he pays maintenance for.. he lives with his wife and 2 other children 1 biological one not. The csa already take into account these children. Dad is now saying he has separated from his wife and has a family based arrangement with her to reduce his costs to me by half. Dad and wife are still very much together living in the same mortgaged home and living as they have for the last however long.
I only collected my son for the address yesterday where all was present.
I’ve raised this with the csa as a fraudulent claim but they have basically said it’s going to be hard to prove he’s lying.
what do I do? I’m at a total loss. Can anyone offer advise as to where I go from here.
please help a desperate mum 🥺