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Hi,
I currently pay my Ex CSA.
My ex has gave her mother rights over my son.
She wont let me have him but has let him go and live with her mother, she has signed all benefits over to her mother and is swapping CSA over to her mother.
My question is now my sons mothers mother is responsible,
Shouldnt my EX pay CSA also and reduce my payments?
If not its a joke and proves the laws against dads.
That would be the fair thing to do, but it's likely that it won't be a matter of the mother just transferring the CSA over to her mother, I'm assuming that it's up to the grandmother to make a fresh claim for CSA and it would be her decision which parent she is claiming from. However I'm not 100% sure so it would be best to check with the CSA or with the Citizens Advice Bureau.
Best of luck
Hello LiamH28
Thank you for your post. If your ex-partner's mother becomes your son's parent with care, she may be entitled to receive child maintenance from both you and your ex-partner.
As you may be aware, there are a number of ways that child maintenance can be arranged. One method is for your son's grandmother to set up child maintenance privately via what we call a family-based arrangement. Even though this type of agreement is not legally-binding, it gives parents the freedom to decide exactly what the terms of their agreement will be.
Your son's grandmother could also decide to make applications to the Child Maintenance Service, the Government's new statutory service. Any child maintenance that is managed by them is legally-binding and enforceable.
The Child Maintenance Service will work out child maintenance and then either, leave it to parents to arrange payments between themselves or where applicable, they can collect payments on a parent's behalf. The paying parent's responsibility to pay would begin from around the point when the Child Maintenance Service contacts them.
An alternative to statutory child maintenance is for parents to arrange child maintenance via the courts in the form of a Consent Order or Minute Agreement (for people that live in Scotland.
If you have a case in place with the Child Support Agency (CSA) and you have questions relating to your
case, you will need to contact the CSA directly to discuss your query.
You may also wish to get in contact with Child Maintenance Options to discuss the ways the child maintenance can be arranged in more detail. Their contact details can be found on their website at http://www.cmoptions.org.
The DWP have a sorting out separation web-app that you may find useful. It offers help and support to separating and separated families. The link is: www.dad.info/divorce-and-separation/sorting-out-separation.
Kind regards
William
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