seriously, i cant believe how angry i am. i should have expected this.
my ex has just told child maintenance that he expects to earn less then $55,000 this financial year. in the past 8 years his earnings have been a minimum of $64,000 when he first started at his current place of employment to when i left between $78,000 and $84,000 per year.
he called child maintenance because he wanted to pay for his son. he told me to my face that it was so he could look better in court so he could have full custody of our little boy. his employment has not changed, he is still full time at the same place, granted that once a month he takes 3 days off to spend with his son, that he makes that time back up to his boss. he usually gets 1 rostered day off per month due to the trade that he is in and is not qualified to do. he gets paid as a tradesperson. in fact he was on the most $$ in the shop because he is a good worker.
this week we have been trying to come to an agreement for settling our property. basically he has all contents and the house and i will receive $5000. yep 5 thousand. thats it. i was quite happy with this until yesterday when i received his copy of the application for consent orders, hes saying he is paying the old amount of child support, yesterday i also received a letter from child maintenance saying he will be paying $100 less per month. thats fine except i know he is lying! his boss has previously offered him cash in hand. i have reported my knowledge to the ato, to find out the truth.
i dont really know what i am asking but i guess i want to know how do i stop him lying all he is doing is hurting his son.
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I know its unfair but i think the best thing to do is let it go.
Whatever he puts through tax you will get eventually. Cash will be really hardto prove. Update the consent orders. Try to let it go dont let him and how he chooses to parent affect you.
I don't know how he can do that. We have just started our own business. So pretty much we earn nothing. Haven't had wages in 3 months (welcome to the transport industry)! We have advised child support of this as we are unable to make a payment at the moment, we are living off borrowed money and supporting 4 kids of our own and yet they don't care. We haven't asked for it too change we are just asking for them to not take the payments just yet and too wait until we get money and will catch up. Apparently that's not good enough and we can't stop payments or decrease our payments until next tax return. So I have no idea what he has said or done to change it.
So your husband feeds the 4 children "of your own", so the other child is what? So since you decided to start a new business, the other child doesn't have to eat? If he lived with you, would you feed him?
Mine is claiming he earns $9000 A year.. A YEAR!!!! i told them he's lying and gave them his employers details and still they do nothing ?
You can call child support and ask for a "change of assessment" form. My ex put down that his company paid me $80,000 (never received $1 of it) and it auto filled on my tax return last year so he has paid $200 less per week since.. It's a long process though, they said it could take up to 55 days to hear back. I waited 3 months and only received a call last week. Still no outcome until they contact him and he "has a chance to respond".
Good luck! You can try the change of assessment application but chances are he has used an estimate and they will use that until they have the lastest figures from the ato.... They won't backdate any further than 18 months and all assessments are based on previous years income (tax return) chances of him having to pay anymore above what he is paying now is very slim... My ex has increased his income every year by 10-15,000 and still they give him a reduction!!!