To start I would get all your documentation from the CSA under the freedom of information act and then start legal proceedings from there on with the help of a legal professional. The CSA will try to fob you off…. don’t let them.. follow everything up in writing.

Good Luck!

15 years ago the girl i was living with fell pregnant, so i did the decent thing and married her. 18 months later we were divorceed, and I lost the houses and everything in it. Plus i had the CSA after me for maintence for the child. The thought didn’t cross my mind that the child might not be mine so i agreed to the payments which was £25 month direct to the CSA for back payments and £350 month direct to the mother (this was not my choice but directed to do so by CSA. Over the years as the child grew up i began to have my doubts about where he was mine or not.
As my new wife was due to have ababy last year, i talked to her about my doubts and we decided to do a DNA test. This was done and the results came back as NEGATIVE. (not my son).
This was rather upsetting, but when i confrunted my Ex wife she admitted that she was sleeping with someone else at the time. So i stopped all payments!

I’ve contacted the CSA and sent the DNA result in, but they have told me that i need to get the tests done by a company reconised by them. This could prove difficult as im nolonger talking with my ex wife.?. what can i do?…..

I have seen many articles and reports on claiming money back? The CSA was a bit woollie over this? they have said that i will probably get back the £25 pounds a month
as this was paid directly to them. but didn’t think I would get the 350 a month back?….I questioned this as it was them that told me to pay her directly..?…..Where do i stand on this?….

Also will i get the money back dated to the date i made my first payment?….or will it be from when i notified them?…

Can i make a claim againist her?…..As she is married again with two more kid in a nice house…where i have struggled all my life with the depts from having to pay CSA .

many thanks

Simon

It is disgusting that the CSA use all these powers to collect money off ‘named fathers’ and the so called ‘mothers’ get away with fraud. We have an affectionate name for my hubbys ex – bunny boiler! She now got 2 children – by 2 different dads both of which are unknown and in dispute. She has had 2 abortions and we unsure whether she had a miscarriage or another abortion for another pregnancy (different dads again). Resulting in 5 pregnancies – one a year and she is only 24. I should add that she remarkably gets pregnant by the guys she names straight away but only kept the 2 pregnancies she could get the most money out of.

Personally women like her should be sterilised as they are breeding machines and terminate pregnacies if the child to be born wouldnt be much use to them financially. They only have their own interests at heart and not that of the poor unfortunate children born to them.

I hope the law gets changed and the csa alter their stance in paternity fraud cases as in a day of equality the system lets these women have more rights. The csa wrote a letter to my hubby saying they make no moral judgement as to why bunny boiler hasnt attended the court ordered dna test but support her right to obtain maintenance off my hubby!! I bet they would have made a moral judgement if my hubby had not of attended!!

Role on the court case – lets hope the magistrates put a stop to this illegal farce!

My guess is that if it a government accredited DNA agency then the result is probably yours.

I know here in the UK, if you are out of work for any length of time then you will only be required to pay a nominal amount for that period of time. So it makes sense to cooperate with the CSA and provide them with that information.

There are other ways to reduce your maintenance depending on how your being assessed (in the UK). I’ll make a post over the next few days on how to go about reducing your payments.

I realised that I now had a finqncial responsibility for this child and filled in all the necessary forms. By the time this was all the sorted the Child was roughly 16 months old and so they backdated 16 months worth of debt and took teh maximum of 30% + out of my wages which meant I was basically working for nothing. I struggled with this for nearly 2 years and got into a lot of debt and started drinking heavily.

Then in Jan 2004 I had a terrible accident as a result of too much to drink and ended up on a life support machine with ablood clot on the brain and MRSA pnuemonia.

Against the odds I survived and came out of hospital 5 weeks later. I managet to get back to acertain level of fitness but suffered with severe tinnitus and dizziness.

As aresult of this I was and still am unable to work and lost my house.

I recently received altter off the CSA stating that I owe the over 9k, now eher ther have dreamt this figure up from I have no idea.

The date of the child was stated on the letter and checking back through the dates I found tthat this baby would have been born at 32 weeks but she weighed in at more than 6lbs which is alot more than average.

Is it possible that the lab that did the testing got it wrong or “fitted” me up even.