My STBX is a truly horrible and toxic person. We reached a settlement between ourselves in early March and since then he has dicked me around. My solicitor had to draft the order, of course, and he has nitpicked it ever since.
The settlement isn't even fair to me. He has loads of assets and a very high income, but the lump sum I am getting is barely enough to balance my future monthly budget. He made it a term of settlement that I have to care for our daughter during the work week.
I was keen to settle so I could buy before the end of the stamp duty holiday. Now he is threatening not to give me my lump sum payment in time to buy the house I have put a lot of money and effort into.
He has been sending constant nasty emails to me and to my solicitors. He threatened to report my solicitor to the SRA. Every time we think we have an agreement, he brings up a new issue. Then he says it's all my fault for drawing the process out. He has been copying and pasting the same text in emails and sending this to my solicitors over and over.
My divorce solicitor, who clearly has seen the worst of the worst, has confirmed that my ex is uniquely horrible. He said that he has a sinking feeling whenever he sees an email from my ex.
The absolute worst part is that my ex bullied me into submitting my removal of home rights notice form early, saying the title not being clear was preventing him from remortgaging (obviously he will be staying in the marital home). He lied about a technical issue to make me do this.
Now the fact that I submitted the home rights notice removal application is preventing him from remortgaging. I contacted the Land Registry over a week ago to withdraw the application. They haven't done it and I'm terrified they won't remove it in time (I will call tomorrow to follow up). He is now using this as a cudgel to beat me with - this is all my fault for having the home rights notice. It is not his fault for lying to me and bullying me
Tldr: my ex continues to ruin my life and my house purchase may fall through because he lied to me