Well how do I start?
 After a brief relationship with a girl, we seperated and went our own 
ways. I hooked up with someone else who I fell for and married.
  I recently received a text message saying "Your daughter is 1yr old 
today" and after a brief chat, discovered she's had a baby...without even 
telling me she was pregnant.
 The CSA got involved and decided that I should pay £440 of my £1500 
wages..my mortgage is £600 and my other bills come to about £300, leaving 
me £200 to pay for my real child and my wife's food,clothing etc. Needless 
to say I'm now falling into arrears with loans that the csa didnt want to 
know about, struggling to balance my bills and feeling pretty close to 
complete financial collapse.
  I have no issues with making an affordable payment to this unknown child, 
but surely the mercenary attitude and complete heartlessness to my 
predicament is going to cause them to very soon get zero due to my losing 
all i have.
 I've talked to them loads and got nowhere, is there anything I can do?

Wellcome to the living hell of the discriminating CSA

If you recieving child tax credits they'll also be depriving you child of 
some of that money in favour of the other child http://www.onwww.co.uk in 
other words stealing from your child.

But if the ex partnet is on benefits and other than ensiuring their 
assesment is correct ie (CS2) 15% at £440 from 1500 that seems high! there 
is little you can do.

Are you certain this child is yours? You could force a DNA test at least 
then you can be sure your paying for your offspring.

Consider joining nacsa if you help dealing with the assesment



"yorky puddn"  wrote in message 
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> Well how do I start?
> After a brief relationship with a girl, we seperated and went our own
> ways. I hooked up with someone else who I fell for and married.
>  I recently received a text message saying "Your daughter is 1yr old
> today" and after a brief chat, discovered she's had a baby...without even
> telling me she was pregnant.
> The CSA got involved and decided that I should pay £440 of my £1500
> wages..my mortgage is £600 and my other bills come to about £300, leaving
> me £200 to pay for my real child and my wife's food,clothing etc. Needless
> to say I'm now falling into arrears with loans that the csa didnt want to
> know about, struggling to balance my bills and feeling pretty close to
> complete financial collapse.
>  I have no issues with making an affordable payment to this unknown child,
> but surely the mercenary attitude and complete heartlessness to my
> predicament is going to cause them to very soon get zero due to my losing
> all i have.
> I've talked to them loads and got nowhere, is there anything I can do?