hi all
I have a weird one here... my wife and I are about to get a divorce. we are going through a lot of pain with her family but I am not going to go into that now.
we want to have a very friendly split where we remain friends.
on top of that, I fully intend to support her into her new life, more than I probably should but that's me all over.
bringing the kids up will be 50/50 or maybe biased towards me. however, it seems that making her primary care on the legal side would be better for her in terms of benefits
I am hoping someone can help me out on a few questions
I have never claimed benefits in my life (except child benefit). I earn pretty good money and hopefully will continue to. however we bought a big house together which is negative equity and we own no other assets.
she works part time but earns the guts of 12k a year (maybe a touch more).
using the benefits calculator, I think she can get around 7-8k benefits a year which brings her to a good wage!
what I want to know, is how do we go about housing benefit... I was thinking about taking out a 70-80k over here, nice ones... and that would mean she would have a 25 year mortgage of around £400 a months...
question is, do I need to buy this house now as a couple to essentially fool the system?
I have already made up her up a full annual budget and all (she is terrible for money so is crying out for help).
we are planning to stay in our old house together until we have a house sorted.
what do u think? what is our best approach here?
cheers
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thetoilet · 25/11/2013 18:47
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