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i have two boys with my ex partner 5 and 2 they live with her and up until toady we had an arrangement i would pay her £200 amonth for the boys.
But today she demanded £300 per month or CSA.
I need advice as she is now pregnant to her new boyfriend and also my family have the boys nearly every weekend and sometime my youngest most of the week. i am allowed my boys on a sunday for a couple of hours but she doesn't want them staying at mine over night.
I would love to be able to have the boys more often but i work 6 days a week and i am on call whilst its harvest due to the job i do.
my take home a monnth is £1900 can anyone advise how much CSA would want and will they take into account my family looking after them?
2 children = 20% of take home income (380 off the top of my gold medal maths brain) - if there is no overnight contact.
If there is overnight contact then 1/7 deduction for every night you have them. EG 7 nights you pay nothing, 2 nights you deduct £109 off eg 2/7ths of 380) so it would be 271 /week. If the children are staying with your family overnight hmmmmm thats a good question cause technically your ultimately responsible for their care when they are at your family's house.
Unfortunately mate even if she is provided for and pregnant with another mans child they dont take that into account for your contributions of your children and to be fair it shouldnt be relevent (unless perhaps in extreme cases).
CSA will also be changing rules soon I gather to incorporate gross pay in an attempt to screw over the working and middle class mainly, I gather disporptional payments at lower levels.
The other critiscism I have is that if for instance you had your kids 50-50 you would still be liable for at least 50% of your payments. The other carer has no obligation to pay you. Madness! Rant over...time to do some work lol
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