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.. To be furious at DH's ex Wife?

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SSDGM · 23/08/2017 13:03

DH split up with the mother of his kids years before he met me. In fact he had another 10 year long relationship in between us. Now their youngest DD is 19 and in employment the time has come to sell the house (or her to buy him out) as agreed. However she's changed her mind and is pleading poverty. She's ignored solicitors letters and mediation requests or left any correspondence to the last minute and has said she's about to be out of a job due to illness. DH has had enough and has instructed solicitors that Mediation will not work and to go straight to court. She now wants him to just sign it all over to her and walk away.
I'm fuming because I have 2 now adult DS's from my first marriage and after their father and I split I made a point to ramp up my career to look after us all where she has just ignored the passing of time and can't now cope without the maintenance and tax credits she got before her DS/ my DSD was of age. I have a little nest egg put away for a house deposit and earn a decent salary. She has now said she will come after MY money and she will be given the house they shared by the courts because she's poorer than I am.
DH is self employed and earns less than I do.

AIBU to want to get involved? How dare she sit on her arse working part time for years after the kids were old enough to take care of themselves and then piss and moan it's unfair that we have a nice life and should give her everything. I've always been nice to her to keep the peace, but I'm losing patience. Why can't she just bugger off?

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BlueButtercups · 06/06/2021 16:10

Posters were asking how OP got on... since a few years had passed 🌸

SSDGM · 08/06/2021 20:13

Oh, wow. Just saw this.

Short and long. She refused to attend mediation, she was warned it would cost her more than the £9k she had originally offered if it went to
Court and then rescinded. It went to
Court, she was proved a liar when she tried to say they had split up much sooner and he had the divorce papers to prove what he was saying, OH got 50% and after he paid out about £15k for the solicitor and costs for a barrister in another town ended up with the £9k anyway.
She now has a much bigger mortgage and a house that is falling to bits.

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Mamadramallama · 08/06/2021 20:30

That's great OP, did you get to buy your own dream house then?

SSDGM · 08/06/2021 20:44

Haha, no. On the day he found out what he was getting in the settlement I discovered I was going to be made redundant. Thankfully I got another job quite quickly with a company based abroad so we are renting a lovely place while we wait out Covid and will be moving overseas hopefully in the next year or so.

We spent that cash on holidays Grin

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DrSbaitso · 08/06/2021 21:02

Thanks for updating, OP. Your story always stuck in my mind.

If she couldn't cover the previous mortgage, how the hell is she going to do this one? I guess if he's off the mortgage now that's not your problem.

Hope you enjoyed the holiday and exciting times ahead.

Franklydear · 08/06/2021 21:19

@DrSbaitso their marriage finished 20 years ago, definitely not ops problem
@SSDGM great on updating, good luck

DrSbaitso · 08/06/2021 21:23

[quote Franklydear]@DrSbaitso their marriage finished 20 years ago, definitely not ops problem
@SSDGM great on updating, good luck[/quote]
I mean in terms of OP's husband getting off the old mortgage. That was indeed her problem; it was the cause of the thread.

SSDGM · 08/06/2021 21:30

I honestly don’t know what she did. She didn’t pay for months afterwards, going well past the time limit set by the court. I feel a bit sorry for her if I’m honest. She thought she was a lot more clever than she is and she learned a very nasty lesson.

Her own grown up child even warned her that she was going to come out of it badly after she had said she was going to take us “to the cleaners”. I think she thought she was going to get her day in court where she could cry and say how much of a bastard he was and the judge would give her everything.

The holidays were great, thank you.

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BlueButtercups · 08/06/2021 21:59

@SSDGM

Wonderful update 🌸

Good luck with your relocation overseas 🌺

Franklydear · 08/06/2021 22:11

@DrSbaitso yes, that’s what i meant, not anymore

SmokeyDevil · 08/06/2021 22:18

That's actually funny that she got screwed over. Is she actually working now or still 'ill?'

Grimacingfrog · 08/06/2021 22:27

I'm so pleased for you OP. I wondered what had happened after this thread came up again. She had just been so unreasonable!!! Enjoy your time abroad.

SSDGM · 08/06/2021 22:36

The “illness” was the part that was her downfall in court. Because the case took place in her nearest city my OH had to pay for a local barrister to represent him instead of his solicitor. Her solicitor pointed out she was ill and may have to give up work and listed her medications and showed a letter from her doctor. However the letter didn’t give any sort of diagnosis and the barrister took the medication list to pieces pointing out she was on antibiotics and OTC anti histamines and there was no proof she had this serious illness she kept on about. She also outed herself as committing benefit fraud on her financial papers by saying she lived alone and was on tax credits due to a low income but then submitted bank statements that showed her partner was paying half towards the bills direct into her bank account. At the time I was ready to report her for fraud but I decided to just leave it as she had been taken apart enough. Like I said, I feel sorry for her. My husband doesn’t.

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warmandtoasty2day · 08/06/2021 22:45

what a result ! it's good she got her come upance.

MsHedgehog · 08/06/2021 23:47

Oh wow! An update nearly 4 years later...love it!

Thanks for letting us know OP!

Geriatric1234 · 09/06/2021 10:28

Brilliant update! Thanks @SSDGM! And is that name an MFM reference? That’s my big Q! 😂 xxx

SSDGM · 09/06/2021 16:26

@Geriatric1234

Brilliant update! Thanks *@SSDGM*! And is that name an MFM reference? That’s my big Q! 😂 xxx
Yes it is! I’ve not listened to it for a while. No commuting means very little podcast activity going on :) I’ll have a look for it to listen to on my run later
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