CMS Opinions

What are peoples opinions of the CMS as in will it make the situation better or worse ?

They seem to have removed the right to apply for a variation based on lifestyle and also the 8% figure for assets over £65,000 to generate and seem to be planning on just using HMRC tax return figures and if there''s a complaint about someone fiddling their tax return I guess they would expect HMRC to investigate.

What I''m thinking is that this will work as expected on NRP''s who have a regular PAYE job as in most people but for those with other assets or their own company it''s not going to work at all as there are many established legal ways to reduce income that fall into "avoidance" rather than "evasion".

The thing with the CSA is that it always worked ok for NRP''s who were on a regular PAYE anyway so is this system just the same but without the expense of appeals to try to get money from the relatively small minority that don''t have regular jobs and who don''t want to pay.

In my experience CSA/CMS only makes a situation worse.

Far better if parents come to an agreement between themselves. Obviously not everyone can do that but I would personally strongly encourage it to be the outcome of choice.

Well I find their rigid implementation of policy not very helpful for unusual situations. In my case I am paying the rent on my ex''s house - if I was paying mortgage that would count towards child support but for some unexplainable reason rent does not.

Even they agree that this seems a bit silly, but all they could suggest was to go to court and ask for a court order. Which of course I can do but as we all know, court is not free.

I think the csa system is extremely unfair and leads to conflict.

How can a system that only looks at the financial side of one side be fair. A rp can improve there financial situation greatly and keep all their additional income whereas if a nrp earns more they immediately have to pay more even if their financial situation hast really improved.

I can''t improve my finacial situation I have not worked in over 22 years due to disability one size doe not fit all

For me personally it has worked as stbx has currently dropped all overtime night shifts etc to cut his wage during the divorce so not to look as if he is earning as much but as soon as it is all over he will go back to doing all those extras as that is what he has always done and has said he will do so by going via Cma my son isn''t disadvantaged