I've just read this and remember someone saying very recently on here
that her ex's territorial army income isn't taken into account. Am
wondering now iv'e read the following if this is actually correct?
TERRITORIAL ARMY COP-OUT
22 June 2006

If you wish to leave your wife and child and not pay any child support
for your child, just join the Territorial Army and your earnings will
be excluded when determining your child support maintenance - even if
the employment is full-time and you earn almost £20,000 p.a. from your
work.

This is a loophole that has worked against Mrs Linda Gould of 50
Furlong Close of Buckfast, whose husband left her last November after
22 years of marriage. Since then Mr Gould has been working 5-7 days a
week for the Territorial Army.

In a letter of 18 May, the Child Support Agency confirmed:
"The Territorial Army is classed as a Special Occupation and Child
Support Regulations state any payment made in respect of the
performance of duties as a member of any territorial or reserve force
is not to be treated as earnings.

"Therefore I am sorry but the Agency is unable to proceed with your
claim for child support from Mr Gould."

This reaffirmed the statement in an earlier letter of 4 May from
another Child Support Agency official who wrote:
"I am writing to confirm that under the current Child Support Act I am
unable to take into account Mr Gould's income from the Territorial
Army. Therefore I am unable to calculate a maintenance calculation."

Mrs Gould has been without a penny piece for her son since her husband
left and Anthony Steen has read the riot act to the Minister, Lord
Hunt, who he wrote to on June 6th. Lord Hunt passed it on nine days
later to the Chief Executive of the Child Support Agency.

Said Anthony Steen:
"This is an absurd and shameful situation. I do not believe it is
Parliament's intention that those in full time employment with the
Territorial Army, earning almost £20,000 a year, should be exempt from
their responsibilities to their children."