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Hi all
My son is 11 and lives with me, has done since he was 6 months old. His mother has never paid any maintenance and when I asked she said she would never work as long as she was entitled to pay! So I just got on with life and never bothered with it.
She now has a daughter with somebody else and her daughter lives with her (aged 4). She has contacted the CSA in regards to receiving maintenance payments from her daughters father which is set at £117.00 per month, this annoyed me because she has never paid and refused to put herself in a position so she would have to pay towards the upbringing of my son.
I called the CSA and they told me I would be entitled to only £5 per week! I don't want the money whether it be £5 or £500 per week, it infuriates me that she is able to get away with this and I want to challenge the rulings in court so the question is: Who is responsible for these unfair rulings so that I can challenge them?
It's unfair that equality never seems to fall on fathers!!
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