Cohabitation Queries

[harman]

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I don't know how many nights count as co-habiting, but I know for sure that although the csa cannot 'take' your friends wages or even force her to declare them, they will assume that she pays 50% of any housing costs that her boyfriend says are his when they decide how much maintenance he should pay to his ex. The csa are a law unto themselves and second families suffer severe financial discrimination. eg ex-wives who work and claim wftc get to keep all maintenance on top of their wftc. But second families who claim wftc get it included as income when the csa work out how much maintenance to screw them for. According to the csa our own son is worth less than his children by his previous wife when you compare the'allowances' made for the respective children. Your friend will lose out on a lot if she co-habits.Especially if her boyfriend's ex is vindictive.

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Your friend needs to speak to the WFTC people and ask:

1. If my partner moves in will that affect my WFTC even if he is paying £X X% of his income to his ex wifes mortgage/rent etc... ?

2. If so will I get any WFTC ? And how much ?

Your friends partner needs to speak to CSA and ask?

1. How much child maintenance am I due to pay? I will be helping to support the child of my partner.

2. Will the fact that I am still married and paying for mortgage and rent be taken into account? If yes, will there still be any child maintenance to pay? If not, how much child maintenance will I pay?

Then your friend needs to do her sums and work out whether she will miss out financially. It looks like she would.

Living together thread

This was the other thread. Don't know if it'll help.

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