Please note if you have paid a membership to any other organisation to help you fight the CSA then one of our policies is NOT to step on other organisations toes, plus we think it is unfair fathers being stripped of their money to be paying money to other organisations when they really do not have the cash to spare. Our belief is if you have paid money to any organisation then that organisation should work to get the results you require.

 

This Association was brought about by Maurice and Sherri Barnett equally to support advise and assist all NRPs and NRPPs who find themselves at the hands of the Child Support Agency or soon to be known as Child Maintenance Enforcement Commissioner CMEC. As most of us who are now caught up by the CSA will have noticed how degrading demoralising this Government run Agency make you as an NRP or NRPP feel. It has become too common an occurrence now for this Agency to lie, abuse powers, break laws and fail to follow their own procedures in order to obtain money to pay towards child maintenance, this we feel has to stop and that is what we are here for, so if your impassioned and feel you want to right a wrong then please join us. We welcome you, your advice and support even from people who are no longer in the grasps of this Agency, please come and join us and lend your support.

Maurice & Sherri Founders of Dead Beat Dads Association

What society expects to happen- but why should it happen this way?

 

    Divorce is never easy and what normally happens is that the NRP ( usually the father ) ends up moving out of the FM Home  and  has to start again by looking for alternative accommodation which means an increase in a new mortgage or increase in rent, as we all know that paying rent can sometimes be more than paying a mortgage.

NRP’s have no option, or are lead to believe they have no option, than to move out are forced to either rent or buy another property, some even going as far as to continue paying the mortgage/rent on the FM Home that the ex wife and children still occupy as well as his own accommodation.

 

This is what society expects of the NRP but why is this so? If a father has worked hard and provided a roof over his family’s head and paid all of the household bills then why is it that he should move out when he and his partner split? And why is it also expected that any children of the family remain with their mother? Simply put, it’s because that is what society has come to expect. We will apologise for the few that this does not happen to, due to bereavement or desertion and abandonment but for the remaining NRP’s or future NRP’s please read on.

 

How the ex can become a different person and abuses the powers given to them through the Family Law system

 

Things do change dramatically during a divorce even more so when children are involved. The ex wife can become a totally different person and most often realise if they want any sort of revenge that they have the power of today's government behind them to gain that revenge. It often kicks in when the NRP finds a new partner and or ,if he begins doing well for himself. If the NRP does or had been contributing towards the child/children of the family, you will find the PWC more often than not wants more.

 

  How often do you hear the phrases,” I need more money, if you don’t give me more I will go to the CSA” or for the poor NRP’s that are paying under CSA1, “ if you don’t give me more money then I will ask for a re-assessment from the CSA “. The NRP is then powerless to do anything about it because we all know that the CSA are a law unto themselves and they hide behind the very acts that the government have made to help take hard earned money from every NRP, however the acts made up for child support law contradicts the Human Rights Act, take a guess at which act came in first?!

 

  What needs to be established here is if a couple have children and the relationship does break down, the NRP should not be treated as an open wallet for the PWC, the CSA and the government. The government mislead the public into believing that children should not be driven into poverty, the protection of the children was to be priority, Tony Blair stated when he was in government that he would make “runaway fathers, absent fathers, and dead beat fathers” pay for their responsibilities towards their children, from then on every divorced father was classed as “dead beat, runaway or absent”. So the government gave the CSA more powers to make sure that divorced fathers paid towards the upkeep of their children. What has in fact happened in a lot of cases is the NRP is paying ALL of the upkeep of the child/children.

 

  These powers were abused by the CSA and by the action of this abuse a lot of fathers were driven into poverty, so far into poverty that they could not afford to live. In one case a father from Manchester was left with just £10 a week to live on, not enough to buy food or put petrol into his car to enable him to get to work, he couldn’t even afford to go and see his children let alone take them out, this ended when the father took his own life because of the actions of the CSA. The government professes to be concerned about the care and welfare of these children, well now these children don’t have money from their father so do you believe that these children will be driven into poverty? I think not, they will not have a father that brought them into the world and all because of the CSA.

The government has allowed the PWC, mainly the mothers, the powers to rub salt into the wounds of every NRP. If the NRP meets a new partner and begins a new life his partners income is also taken into account to help contribute towards HIS chid/children, if the PWC the mother meets a new partner then that new partners wage is not taken into consideration, how is this a fair system? It isn’t, it is a case of Tony Blair’s famous statement” I will make absent fathers pay”

 

NRP’s classed as criminals because they’re divorced

 

    In reality all divorced fathers are classed as runaway, absent or deadbeat. The pattern continued as Baroness Hollis said “Child support payments should be regarded as a statutory tax on father hood, and not a voluntary contribution… absent fathers had to get into the habit of making child support payments as soon as they become liable……Mps will be provided with ready reckoners which they will be able to use to tell people at a glance how much child support they will have to pay or how much they are due. Another statement made by Polly Toynbee."Every father should be forced to hand over 15% of his income direct to the mother from the day they split".

  Notice the pattern, its all against father hood no mention of statutory tax being put on motherhood when the mother leaves the children with the father. If you notice a lot of theses statements are made by... yes you guessed it a woman minister how sexist don’t you think? It is a case of these people not living in the real world.

 

Society says that the father should pay for his children, - i believe that it is the responsibility and duty of BOTH parents to pay for the upbringing of their chid/ren  and it should also apply whether the mother is the PWC or the NRP. The NRP and PWC should pay equal amounts to the cost of clothing, school fees and other basic essentials to help the children survive, the NRP should not be funding the rent/mortgage, luxuries or other lavishing lifestyles. After all if there were no children involved when a couple split, the adults will have to either find places of their own or one sells the former matrimonial home to the other ex partner, it would not be expected for who ever moves out to pay towards the other ex partners living costs, it would be up to themselves to sort out their own finances.

 

Equal Rights -or is it? Womens Rights– SO what about the fathers rights

 The next problem that comes to light about the way the Government have given power to the woman, and that is if the PWC (mother) wishes to stop the NRP (Father) seeing their children then the PWC can use the CSA in order to obtain most or all of the NRPs money leaving him with little or no cash to see his children, take them out or even buy them presents for birthdays and Christmas. A number of NRPs have taken the PWC to court in order to have contact and access with their children and more often than not it costs the NRP hundreds if not thousands to do this, however if the PWC (mother) decides to break that order then it is up to the NRP (Father) to take it back to court at a further cost to the NRP. This is where again the PWC makes an application to the CSA knowing fine well they will take a large amount of his earnings which then prevents the NRP taking the PWC back to court as he will have no funds to do it.

 

CSA are sexist FACT

 

  The strange thing about the whole scenario is that if the roles are reversed i.e the father is the PWC, and he goes to the CSA to make an application they are very reluctant to chase the mother (NRP) for child support because more often than not, and I have heard this for myself, the CSA state to the father “well your working so you can afford to look after your children and we are not normally obliged to chase the mother for child support”

 

   If this is the case then if it is suitable for the mother to get away with paying child support then it has to be ok for the father to get away with paying child support, after all the women did fight for equal rights years ago and that woman should not be treated like they used to be years ago i.e the woman stays at home and the husband goes to work to provide for his family, seems as though the women don’t mind going back to the old days when it suits you.

 

  On a final note what we need is a fairer system to help pay for the children and also a system that is not going to move the so called “Poverty” from the children to the father

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please help us keep up the fight against this draconian agency and help us stop the unlawful behaviour that the NRP has to endure. Your donations helps us to keep the Association  and the fight going

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DISCLAIMER

The Association is here to help those caught up  in the clasps of this dreadful Child Support Agency. The Founders are not solicitors and do not charge for any advice given. We cannot say what the outcome of court cases will be, nor will we say you will get the outcome you wish, that is down to the individual Magistrates or Judge. We will not be  held responsible for loss that you may encounter , we are there to simply help and advise non resident parents to help make things as difficult for the CSA when they decide to break the law and their own procedures in order to recover child maintenance illegally.

 

 If you send us an email and you do not get a response please jog our memories by another email or by calling us on our phone line. Please do not let it get to or pass the court date before sending an email back accusing us of ignoring you are being a waste of time using us. We are doing this voluntarily, we do not get any money apart from donations and we do have our every day jobs to get on with and in our case we work to silly shift patterns, so please if you have a problem and we have not responded then a quick reminder will help us along.

 

As stated before we cannot and do not guarantee any outcome of any case be it appeal stage or court case, however if the result is not to your satisfaction, please let us know what happened and what was stated so we can then look at putting together a better defence case for the appeal. If you feel annoyed or simply want to tell us if and when we go wrong, then please feel free to air your opinion but please keep it expletive free. We are committed to reviewing how we operate so please we are always welcome of constructive criticism

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEAD    CSA has claimed 61 Fathers  lives if not more so far

BEAT     Fathers are beaten by the draconian demoralising laws of the CSA

DADS    The children’s father who is now classed as a criminal because he is divorced

ASSOCIATION The group to stand their ground against unlawful inhumane Government Legislations