Good thing?
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No...just makes life harder!!!

I'm sure the government will replace it with an equally incompetent department with no accountability!

Hmmm....think I've studied politics for too long. Made me one cynical man!
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Trace the CSA are crap and draconian they caused festering resentment coupled with ineptitude! the staff were low grade!!!!! I could tell you the best way to nail your exe mine was an expert!!!! im still paying for a 23yr old who has been working for 4 years> The best i can say is a lot of women dont bother to check the law!!!!! mine had a CSA assesssment running and me in court at the same time!!!! big joke was she got less from the courts but nailed me another way read your law 1st and you could wipe your exe out!!!!!
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Attachment of earnings!!!! any arrears accrue!!!!! then surgically removed when he has money!!!!!!!
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alas ladytracexx is correct, i know people that are self employed and employed that have successfully avoided paying the CSA for years.

courts do have the power to stop the income at source, great if he's working within a company, harder when self-employed and can get cash in hand, cheques which can be placed into other peoples accounts etc.

Self-employed people can make paper trails to cash disappear, and its a common practice to avoid paying so much tax.

The CSA being scrapped is a good thing in the sense it was unfair in its assesments to the absent fathers(there terms) often leaving some fathers with no money to survive.

The down side to this is the report is that the new department being set up will have strong powers to penalize fathers who cant pay, and heres the catch the only the staff that is currently running the CSA will be the new staff at the new department.

Same shit different department.

i believe women and men should recieve a fair amount of support if the other parent has left, but not at a cost of where the other parent can no longer afford to live.

Having lost my home, furniture, everything i had worked years for and almost my sanity.

I am probably a bit biased! But the system is biased towards a) the female b) if the male is easily obtainable he is hit hard and it could be said that the law is a total ass in the family situation? The amount of work required to create an equitable system that is workable in the 21st century and the fact that it generates no Govt revenue at all possibly places this sort of thing very low on mr Blairs priority list????

Surely a system that equates the need of ALL concerned and finds a way to circumnavigate the methods the more unscrupulous use to hide money! It must be said that there are equally as many unscrupulous females too?

Its time to revamp what is an essentially Victorian set of Acts and Bills that have merely been tampered with to suite the occaision! The whole shebang needs fixing!

The way your home is devided up? the division of assets? the amount of maintenance and for how long? and of course the amount of contact dad gets? more importantly a method of accessing the courts for males and females when orders are breached?
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I beg to differ that the system is biased towards the female, since I am a single mum who has now found herself in the position of paying maintenance.
My daughter and I struggled from when she was aged 7 after i split up from her father. He always managed to avoid paying much maintenance, through one sob story or another, so I had to work my way up the career ladder to pay for things for my daughter so that she didn't miss out. It was hard bloody work having to sort out the childcare as well as work etc.

then in January this year, my daughter, now 15 decided to go and live with her dad. He then got the easy life, her being old enough for him to carry on with his life without any disruption, and I got slapped with a maintenace claim. Because I worked up to earning a fairly good salary I have to pay a huge amount every month to him now, when they didn't even enforce any of his payments to me when she lived with me! Forgive me for thinking the bias was definately towards the male here.

I am a father with care and I must say I have been passed around every department of the csa and palmed off with every imaginable excuse, for one they just do not expect fathers to have care, my 2 chilren wanted to live with me and thats what they did, happily they are now dependant teenagers, the csa did help me in the end but I am still outta pocket.

I did say that the whole divorce senario needs to be looked at with a serious eye and a view to changing it to suit the current economic climate! At least with the CSA you did get a chance to have reviews! the cost of a court review is astonomic! I know having been there! I got stuck with higher maintenance payments and TWO legal bills to pay! No system is 100% perfect but the way divorce is handled needs to be looked at? SOON! how many people who loose their homes can actually afford to buy on their own? Why should 1 person loose everything? Its not justice because it's unequal?
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i think the csa are a waste of time it just causes more animosity between parents, i don't bother with them and i dont get maintenance if he has a few pound spare he'll help out,but to be honest i have the joy of having her everyday so who needs money

whilst i was with my 2nd ex we paid horrendous amounts for the upkeep of his absent daughter. More came out of his wage for the one than we we were allowed for the other 4. Because he was in the NAvy, he was a sitting duck and had knok say at all about it coming out of his wages.