Hi All. I have been paying child support in accordance to on CSA's assessment based on current percentage of care. Child's mother and I are currently in family court for parenting matter. I want parenting arrangement in line with what family report recommends. She's contesting the recommendation with no good reason. Recently child's mother raise an application to change assessment to CSA asking for more money. Her claims are:
1. She unilaterally decided to put child into a child care for 5 days a week because she works on full time, then claim to CSA that the childcare cost is too high (out of pocket cost is more than 5% of her taxable annual income). She also gets family tax benefit and all the money she can get from the government, on top of my child support. But she applied to CSA to have me pay more.
2. She unilaterally decided to buy a single parent health insurance policy (child + her) with many extras that only she needs but not the child. This is one policy, one price that covers two people. I do not agree with this policy and suggested an alternative policy that covers the child better and offered to share the cost on the child part of the insurance cost should we agree. She then refused my proposal and applied to CSA wanting to increase my child support because of this insurance that she decided to get.
3. Long story short, there was a period of time she withheld the child and I was completed denied access, until I initiated family court proceeding. After I got access to the child I discovered that she did not provide proper care to the child and he needed an one off major dental surgery to fix his teeth. My heart was broken after knowing this, to me it was a child neglect issue. But she sees it as a money issue. Initially she agreed to pay for this medical cost. But after surgery is complete, she changed her mind, not only did she deny her wrong doing, she also asked CSA to have me pay for the cost of the surgery citing "special need of the child.". Of course she omitted the fact that she was solely responsible to the damage, as I had no access to the child at all.
Question 1, are her claim 1 and 2 legitimate under family law or CSA policy?
As for her claim 3, in order not to let the child suffer, I will agree to pay half the cost, despite my own financial situation is worse then hers. But Question 2, Was I even responsible for this cost to begin with?
1. She unilaterally decided to put child into a child care for 5 days a week because she works on full time, then claim to CSA that the childcare cost is too high (out of pocket cost is more than 5% of her taxable annual income). She also gets family tax benefit and all the money she can get from the government, on top of my child support. But she applied to CSA to have me pay more.
2. She unilaterally decided to buy a single parent health insurance policy (child + her) with many extras that only she needs but not the child. This is one policy, one price that covers two people. I do not agree with this policy and suggested an alternative policy that covers the child better and offered to share the cost on the child part of the insurance cost should we agree. She then refused my proposal and applied to CSA wanting to increase my child support because of this insurance that she decided to get.
3. Long story short, there was a period of time she withheld the child and I was completed denied access, until I initiated family court proceeding. After I got access to the child I discovered that she did not provide proper care to the child and he needed an one off major dental surgery to fix his teeth. My heart was broken after knowing this, to me it was a child neglect issue. But she sees it as a money issue. Initially she agreed to pay for this medical cost. But after surgery is complete, she changed her mind, not only did she deny her wrong doing, she also asked CSA to have me pay for the cost of the surgery citing "special need of the child.". Of course she omitted the fact that she was solely responsible to the damage, as I had no access to the child at all.
Question 1, are her claim 1 and 2 legitimate under family law or CSA policy?
As for her claim 3, in order not to let the child suffer, I will agree to pay half the cost, despite my own financial situation is worse then hers. But Question 2, Was I even responsible for this cost to begin with?
Last edited: