New Partner question and Child support question!

[MissBrightside]

Hi guys i haven't been on here for ages but have come in for a look every now and then.
i have been seeing my new partner for just over a year now and the conversation of him has come up.
He has two kids who he pays over $600 a month for and has them with him every second weekend and has them over for dinner the week in between. I have two kids full time and get $38 a fortnight for, their dad hasn't seen them since September 07. No phone calls no b'day pressies nothing.
He owes me a lot of child support but will probably never see it. He is supposed to be paying me $70 a week and before I got a new estimate i was supposed to be getting $100 a week. So he has gone into debt with CSA cause he hasn't informed them of working so they just take the maximum rate of $38 a fortnight from him. They are absolutely no help when i ring them and just tell me to ring them back in a few weeks if i don't hear from them. i just go around in big circles.
Anyway my question is how will my payments be affected? Obviously i will lose the pension and concession card, but what happens with the FTB payments? Will my kids have any affect on the child support my partner pays? His ex is remarried with two more kids and are doing very well for themselves.
Thanks~!

[Starlet]

I'm in a similar situation. My hubby pays child support for his daughter and I get the minimum from my ex.

Your children will not effect how much child support he pays(even if you get married). The only children that will change the assessment is if you have children together.

You will get FTB part A and B, rent assistance if you are renting. His income will affect this.

[MissBrightside]

Thanks Starlet.
I thought that was the case. Can I just ask how much do you roughly get a fortnight? You don't have to answer if you don't want and i know it will be different as we have different circumstances. Just curious. I tried doing an estimate on the fao website but I almost finish and it crashes on me. Done it a few times now.
I don't get why my kids are not seen as his financial responsibility. Yes it is his choice to take that on but then his ex has a husband that has taken on the responsibility of his two kids.
I'm not saying that he shouldn't pay anything for them, but why can't my two be seen as his responsibility also? I suppose in the scheme of things my ex should be doing that but what happens when people's ex's don't do the right thing by their kids?
I think they need to really look at every case individually.
I guess I'm lucky that I have someone who is willing to be their dad and take care of them with me. I'm still at the stage of feeling like we are a financial burden on him even though he doesn't see it that way.

[Starlet]

I totally get what you're saying. It urks me that my children live with hubby and I full time, but they don't see that he is paying for them, I can't even work atm as I'm pregnant(and overdue at that!). Then you go to centrelink and they say, 'oh well it doesn't matter if they are his kids or not', so you end up losing out.

I will PM you the other info you asked about :)

[Kassiasmum]

I don't get why my kids are not seen as his financial responsibility. Yes it is his choice to take that on but then his ex has a husband that has taken on the responsibility of his two kids.
I'm not saying that he shouldn't pay anything for them, but why can't my two be seen as his responsibility also? I suppose in the scheme of things my ex should be doing that but what happens when people's ex's don't do the right thing by their kids?


Because they are not his kids so has no legal financial responsibility for your kids and the same with his exes husband. I have 2 dss that lived with us full time for about 11 years, yes I paid for everything with dp but wouldn't like CS to say that I have a legal financial responsibility for kids that aren't even mine. I do understand where you are coming from though and each case is so different that I don't think CS could look at each case as such individually. I would have loved that, even though the kids lived with us, we still had to pay BM CS because she didn't work.

[I love JJJ]

Bambina, can you tell me what reasons that they (CSA) look at when assessing an individual case?
Thanks.

:)