This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Make fathers with assets or self employed income pay for their children
In numerous cases absent fathers have multiple houses and cars yet submit a nil tax return to avoid paying child support in addition fathers deliberately go self employed to free themselves of this burden leaving children in poverty
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In a case known to me the mother was offered £8.00 per week child support from the CMS when the father on an E1 form in court owned 3 houses, 5 cars and 2 nightclubs however produced a nil rate tax return leaving the child's mother visiting food banks
The current system is leaving children in poverty as £8.00 does not even cover dinner money is this really fair it takes 2 to bring a child into the world.
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