Long and acrimonious break with ex.
We hardly communicate any more and our children aged 20 and 18 don’t have a massive amount to do with him. He is more a dad to his step child than to our two.
Our DD is 18 and in FT education and he pays a shit amount of money in comparison with what he earns (he has 2 businesses, has students - which was the reason he stopped having the kids to stay originally and they stopped wanting to go several years ago - and they hate his new wife who did everything she could to make them feel unwelcome).
Anyway the silly twat decided to pay DD the money direct from when she was 18 to “teach her responsibility about money”
- this is a girl who saves and who had a paper round from age 13
. I think it was more to irritate the fuck out of me.
Every month since she turned 18 I have had to remind her several times to do the transfer to me which is yet another thing to nag about and she won’t do a direct debit. We generally have a great relationship and I hate having to ask her for the money.
Anyway he’s just got back from 5 weeks abroad (Australia, NZ, Fuji) and he has been giving DD driving lessons for a year which he is charging her £5 an hour for but he’s not taken the money from her for a while. Clearly he’s come back skint and asked her for £60 and taken it out of the maintenance so that I then have to retrieve the debt from her myself.
I have phoned the CMS and made a claim and I don’t care if I end up with less money as he hides all his earnings with lodgers, getting paid cash etc and Inland Revenue did fuck all when I contacted them - as did the CSA.
Ahhhhhh my DD and I have now fallen out about it 
why is he such a prick?!
Rant over.