I have just received a letter informing me that my ExP hasn't made his maintenance payments for 6 months - before you all flame me for being a dozy mare, I only get £2.50 a week anyway so hadn't really noticed (and yes the decimal is in the right place!).
I am supposed to get a back payment of just over £60 in the next couple of weeks but I am secretly hoping that he doesn't pay this because, according to the little booklet that they kindly enclosed, he could get into quite a bit of trouble for not paying...
A bit of background is probably necessary: I left DS's father when DS was 3 months old after a violent relationship. I returned for a visit when the dust had settled (or so I had thought) with the hope that we could establish some civil relationship whereby my DS could see his father. At that point I was told that he "didn't want to see [his] son until he was old enough to realise what a bitch his mother was" - the suggested age was about 16, at which point my DS would miraculously turn against me and fall into the open arms of the man who kicked seven shades of shit out of his mother whilst she was pregnant
I walked away and decided that I didn't really want him to play emotional tug of war with my lovely little boy anyway so not seeing him was probably for the best anyway.
Anyway, back to the CSA payments... I never really wanted ExP's money, not feeling that it was fair to ask for money when he had no access to his son. However at the same time I was fuming that he was fraudulently claiming benefits in order to keep his payments down. He then went on to pretending that his earnings were only about £80 a week to keep the payments low (I suspect that the Benefits people got on to him). His website (Architectural Salvage and Antiques) has a very high turnover as I have kept half an eye on it over the last few months. When I was with him he was bringing home +£1500 a week in cash and also making some really interesting insurance claims - not to mention dodging tax. He proudly claimed to have fiddled the Tax Man out of "at least £200k over the years". He lives in the 8 bedroom house that I helped to rebuild - which he subsequently extended and it would now appear uses as some sort of BNP outpost (his FB page is covered in horrendously bigoted slogans and quotes). All in all he is a really nasty piece of work and not in the slightest bit worthy of sympathy...
AIBU to hope that he doesn't make the payments and as a consequence gets the comeuppance that he thoroughly deserves?