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Hi everyone, this is my first time on this forum. I have been paying CSA/CMS for many years and really don't have the time or the typing skills to go into too much detail of the nightmares I have suffered at the hands of ex partners and government agencies!! However, I do have one question which I don't think would be best practice to ask CMS directly!
I have been engaged to my partner since 2012 and have decided that its about time I married her! We have been discussing finances and whether a joint account would be the best way forward.
So with a joint account in mind, would this affect my payments and/or would the CMS take my fiancés income into account?
As I remember, once upon a time, the CSA did take any partners income, then they stopped and now its the CMS.....???
I would appreciate any advice offered. Thanks.
hi,
first of all, joint account is asking for trouble. don't do it. less complicated and risky, and easier to pay CMS from single account.
I think that was the very early days of CSA, later on they only took a proportion of her child tax credits into account. I agree with Bill though, use a separate account, it makes life much easier. If you want to pay bills out of a joint account with a new partner, then by all means open a joint account and both pay into this, but don't pay child maintenance out of it.
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