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1. You should attend at your local Legal Aid office and make a request for a solicitor to be appointed to take your case before the District Court. Legal Aid is available in your situation to help you get chlid support. Be aware that the amount a court will award where there are three children is 25% of your boyfriend's net after tax income. This would be paid weekly or monthly, depending upn when your boyfriend gets paid.
2. Yes, I can help without a phone call.
3. You should attend at your local Legal Aid office and make a request for a solicitor to be appointed to take your case before the District Court. Legal Aid is available in your situation to help you get chlid support. Be aware that the amount a court will award where there are three children is 25% of your boyfriend's net after tax income. This would be paid weekly or monthly, depending upn when your boyfriend gets paid.
4. Yes, if you can afford a private solicitor, then you should use them as you are likely to get a better quality of service with them.
5. Yes, you can cancel the phone call.
6. The Offer has now expired, so it will no longer go ahead.
7. Yes, it is.
8. Explain to him what is the amount which a court would order and seek to have him agree to this amount. These are standard child maintenance payments.
9. These answers are given in accordance with Irish law, so I am quoting you the amounts which would apply in Dublin.
10. You should get 885 per month on a 25% basis. Your own salary is not relevant to the amounts your boyfriend has to pay for his children. You should get the solicitor to apply on your behalf to the District Court.
11. Yes, I regret it is. Some allowance for rent might also be made, but as you are living in your own home, this would not apply.
12. I regret to say you won't get back pay. So, for this reason, the sooner you make the application, the better.
13. As I stated above at point 10, your own salary is not relevant to the amount your boyfriend has to be pay.
14. No, you cannot tell him that he can't see the kids until he starts paying. Your boyfriend is still entitled to see his kids even if he is not paying. You need to go to court to get the maintenance sorted out but this is separate from your boyfriend's right to see his kids.
15. Your boyfriend can tell the court he cannot afford the 885 but the court is likely to disregard such an argument.
16. Yes, even if he shows his expenses.
17. Yes, you can take it up with Customer Services if you wish for clarity.
18. If you are on a good salary, you should use the services of a private solicitor as there is a means test for Legal Aid and you look as if you come above the threshold for getting Legal Aid.