Is it best to go self employed or umbrella - from a CSA point of view?

[formant]

Is it best to go self employed or umbrella - from a CSA point of view?

Understand: there are good and bad mediation services though, it's an evolving profession. There are new procedures coming into play to try and deal with the unreasonable parties and either get them to the table or push the case back to court.

Thing is, if you can't have a normal conversation with your ex, neither mediation, nor family therapy are going to help. Yet in family courts it's somehow expected that you try either or both repeatedly. Sure it would be better to keep matters out of court, but unfortunately having at least one completely unreasonable party following a marital break-up is closer to being the norm than the exception. :-/

If you're lucky enough to be able to talk to your former partner in a constructive way, doing so in a formal setting like mediation can definitely help you sort some things out.

[psychocandy]

Yeah, Form C100 (oh we've filled out a few...), £200 to apply. Of course it's only £200 if you act as a litigant in person (we did), which not everyone is capable of. (I'm very much against using solicitors as most of them, despite their fees, are actually pretty useless, but I also realise that many people just couldn't do it on their own.)

(Apologies for posting three times in a row...should've done a multi-quote...)

Yeh thats the one. But he couldnt even be arsed to do that. Said £200 was too much to pay out.