Has your Family Assistance gone up??
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Has your Family Assistance gone up??
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The system is extremely unfair. I dont receive child support AT ALL because the "Australian government does not agree with the Jamaican government" and therefore do not collect child support from there. Yet there is nothing provided by the governement to compensate for this!
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I wan't offended at all, i was just replying to this part of your post
I will speak to DH tonight about reciprocal arrangements with Jamaica.
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I didnt really explain myself too well this afternoon...
All i meant to say really was how frustrating it is that child support can be enforced in some countries and not others. ''Compensate" was the wrong choice of word. "Enforcement" would have been a better one!
Sorry for hi-jacking your thread barbie-up!
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The less child support I receive, the more FTB I get - so the government are making parents with the majority of the care more reliant on centrelink. I look at what I receive for working part time, studying part time and being home with my kids the rest of the time and I don't want to work full time. I would even be better off working less than I do now, but I can't get away with one shift at work.
The top part of the assessment notice that has the income and then subtracts that amount they deem that you need to live on to give a remainder to base their formula on completely ignores the fact that my remainder is less than zero, not just zero.
And the biggest slap in the face in this is if I went to work full time at the end of my studies next year, I would probably end up having to pay my EX for his big 15% of the care.
oh well - build a bridge !
Child Support Nightmare
I would love somebody to be able to help out or shed some light on this one..grab a coffee..it's a biggy..an ABSOLUTE minefield!!!
My ex and I entered into a child support agreement as part of a property settlement 28months ago. Our solicitors signed the agreement and he was the one who suggested it and put the offer forward. My eldest went to live with him 1 year ago and he stopped paying child support to me ever since that day. I still have two kids who live with me. He has no contact with one and the other sees 5 nights a fortnight...much to DS detest. For the past 13 months ex has paid no child support, arrears have accrued and the CSA have stopped him leaving the country (Departure Prohibition Order). He refuses to work with the CSA to clear his debt. They gave him 14 days to sort his issue out before they commenced court proceedings...so what did he do...issued court proceedings against me to try and get out of his arrears and agreement. I have tried 7 times through my solicitor to come to an arrangement for the arrears but ex has never acknowledged attempts to sort this out. During all of this I found out he ceased being self employed (had been for 25 years and earnt over $100k each year) in favour of becoming employed by his...wait for it...girlfriend. She'd set up a shelf company and he works for her doing exactly the same job etc etc but is now paid $577pw gross..or so he claims. At court last week he turned up with a super specialised barrister (which would have cost him a fortune) and the judge is making us go to case conciliation (waste of time - he has never bothered before) so now I am supposed to negotiate with him when this was his own doing in the first place!! Back to court in October for a final hearing if nothing is agreed at conciliation. My current husband and I have been supporting the kids and because of this he has earnt more income to help out. We also have two children of our own and I look after them (20mths and 9 mths). He also pays child support for two other children. Trouble is because he has had to earn more to help with his step children and under the new legislation his child support has gone from $75pm to $581pm!!!! I don't know how we are sposed to afford this. I spoke to CSA and he can't do anything under the COA as the kids father is still living (albeit FIRE!!). In the mean time my husband is supporting all 6 children by himself (including 2 he is not legally obliged to support...however they need to eat). The CSA have been USELESS with all of this situation and all I am told is "yes, the system doesn't suit everyone, I'm not sure what you can do". As we can't afford to pay the increase in child support we too will have debt with the CSA. All this could have been avaided if my ex honoured his agreement. I am very worried the judge will discharge his arrears and discharge the agreement.........PLS HELP!!!!!
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