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Sarah & Dave · 18-07-2006, 04:29 PM

I would like to know if anyone could help me and my husband with a question that we have, as we are finding it difficult to get an answer.

We are moving to Australia at the end of August next year and my husband has an 8 year old son from a previous relationship who will be staying behind with his natural mother. Dave is currently paying child maintenance through an organisation called CSA on a weekly basis. Our question is what do we do when we leave the UK as my husband wants to still pay for his son, but would rather give it straight to the mother so he knows his son will see all of it and not the government, the only problem is that the mother is on income support and all the other benefits as she is classed as disabled, would this affect her payments if she was getting money straight from my Dave into her bank acct as her payments are subsidised by the local council due to being a single mother etc.

We really don't know where we stand legally or what we are to do in this circumstance.

18-07-2006, 04:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
Sarah & Dave Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Gloucestershire, UK Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Help required with CSA query I would like to know if anyone could help me and my husband with a question that we have, as we are finding it difficult to get an answer. We are moving to Australia at the end of August next year and my husband has an 8 year old son from a previous relationship who will be staying behind with his natural mother. Dave is currently paying child maintenance through an organisation called CSA on a weekly basis. Our question is what do we do when we leave the UK as my husband wants to still pay for his son, but would rather give it straight to the mother so he knows his son will see all of it and not the government, the only problem is that the mother is on income support and all the other benefits as she is classed as disabled, would this affect her payments if she was getting money straight from my Dave into her bank acct as her payments are subsidised by the local council due to being a single mother etc. We really don't know where we stand legally or what we are to do in this circumstance.