Ex was paying a small amount of maintenance weekly (£30) for our two year old dd. This was a private arrangement so no CMS involvement.
Payments became extremely irregular over the last three months resulting in him building up arrears of about £200.
He has just told me that he will not be paying this back - this has left me in debt as I have had to put food shops etc. on my credit card. I can’t pay this extra debt off realistically until I go back to full time work once dd goes to school. (I currently work 16 hours a week) so this has really pissed me off - he has a job and whilst it is not highly paid, he should still be contributing something reasonable to his daughter’s expenses.
I have now started a claim with the CMS but I imagine the calculation will be very low as he has two other children and now lives with a woman who has a child so this will all be deducted. I’m anticipating it will be around £10 a week, which won’t help me much but at least will be regular and if he stops paying again they can chase him for it.
As for this £200 arrears, they will not chase that of course as it predates the claim. Can I therefore take him to the small claims court for it, does anyone know? Thank you