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Hi,
Wonder if someone can shed some light as i felt from the Cms I was fobbed off.
Ive an ex I pay for 1 child. Always have, this is arranged between us. 3 nights a week.
And i have a soon to be ex wife. Who I have 2 lovely kids to that I have 3 nights a week.
The Cms arnt taking into account that I have 3 kids which is what I was expecting. Instead they are looking at my ex wife 2 children claim and using some deduction for the 1 other child.
Why do they not calculate 3 then divide equally.
Also after an affair on her part and leaving me with a morgage and dept in my name they said they wouldn't use that in their calculation. Is this right as the morgage is a dept incurred by both of us and she has claim to some equity from it through the solicitors.
1.
In order to get the CMS to take child 1 into consideration, you have to register that as with the CMS as well.
After all, what stops anyone from claiming that they have 5 other children that they pay for elsewhere, thus cutting down on their payments to Parent with Care.
2.
Unfortunately the CMS do not take into consideration joint debt, or indeed any of your pre-tax commitments when calculating how much you pay towards the kids. They are ONLY concerned with your taxable income.
It's a [censored] of a system (and I am a paying parent who does not have access to his kids), but the aim has to be try and prevent the kids from being punished for the sins of the parent with care.... no matter what either parent has done. Including whatever debt they may have gotten into.
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