Grrr Child Support - a boohoo

[briggsy's girl]

contact legal aid - given you're on PPS, you're on a low income, you should be able to get cheap assistance or atleast enough advice to work out whether it's worth pursuing

[Arimeh]

CQ - yup you'd definitely qualify for spousal maintenance.

Go get legal aid...

And don't worry - when you go for property orders in the court - you'll probably get a lot of his super too

good luck!

[C~Q]

Thanks, i'll get on to legal aid. We don't own our house so I don't think we need to go to court for anything - maybe the spousal maintenance?

Would the SM affect what I get from CL? I'm on the basic FTB already and PP with no rent assis.

Thanks guys I keep forgetting to ask all these things when I actually talk to someone at CL!

[~clover~]

I there a reason you aren't getting RA???
Sorry if its none of my business.

[C~Q]

No thats ok! We're all here to help each other! It's because I get the max amount of child support so I get basic FTB and no RA.

[Beatrix]

hun

i dont know what you get told but i get RA while getting max FTB and PP so you should be entiltled to it

i dont get heaps of cs though ($100 p/w)

[briggsy's girl]

the amount of ftba and rent assistance is child support dependent - so CQ is right saying if she is receiving max CS, she gets basic ftba and no RA.

[C~Q]

I don't get rent assis and I get basic FTB because I get so much CS ($2700 a month) so I suppose they class it as an income (which it is).

Beatrix I can't believe you get $100 per week WTF?

I just spoke to a lady at the family law courts and she said that they won't give advice on anything not related to children and neither will legal aid so she said i'm best off calling around lawyers and seeing who will give me enough info to see if it's worth pursueing like you said BG.

So mistree can I call around lawyers and see if any of them work with Legal Aid? Is that how it works? Man i'm so confused now!

[Yael]

My DH works for CSA. When he gets a chance over the next week or so (he is taking his first lot of hols for the year), i'll ask him to come in here and give some advice.