can i cancel court order and go through csa?

[lushlar]

Please help, my ex husband is a moron, keeps stopping and starting the child maintenance, then it goes to courts, gets lowered all the time and the arrears always get dropped. Im fed up with having to go to court all the time . can i cancel the court order and go through csa? the origional court order was made in 2001
He is not paying even though a new job in London and a flat in Kensington has arrived to him. please help

[lushlar]

smoeone must know pleaseeee, im desperate

[ojread2]

I agree, your ex is a moron (and quite a few other words besides)
However, I don't know the answer to your question although I can't see why you can't.
Could you not call the CSA to ask?
TBH You may well have as much hassle with them anyway - it took me over 10 years to get any money via the CSA and I only made them get their finger out when I asked them for the complaint forms to make a formal complaint - a few months later, voila! Money in my bank account

We need the same laws as they have in America IMO

Good luck and I'm sure some one will come along who knows for sure

[lushlar]

thank you for replying, have spoke to csa and there is some confusion as if they can help me due to the fact my court order was put in place before 2001.............bit scary to cancel then csa wont help, but they wont help till i cancel court order..............ggggrrrrrr

[ojread2]

no problem

I thought that might be the case with the CSA. I thought is was easier to implement payments if it was made via a court order? Obviously not
I know (in the end!) thew CSA were going to court to make my ex pay inc back payments. He had the order in front of him and was given 14 days (I think) to pay. I had agreed to half of what was owed in the vain attempt to make him give something for the 17 years he hadn't paid for his child despite having 2 more with his second wife. If he didn't pay something then they were sending in the bailiffs to remove goods
As I said he did eventually pay up something but it wasn't even half of what he owed his daughter in terms of being a father. It is not about money but about him taking responsibility, which he never did do and still doesn't in many ways
Sadly, because he is also a moron he told said daughter that he had to sell his house to pay it! the lies that my ex spouts are unbelievable lol
I hope you get some where - do you/did you have legal aid?

[lotsafun]

in my experience the CSA are useless, if your moron of a ex can fob the courts off then he can certainly run rings around the CSA