Ex stopped paying maintenance

[Ceci03]

So ex lives in Ireland. He's always been fairly ok about paying maintenance which was court ordered back in 2010. Up and down but usually paid eventually. Since May he has stopped answering my calls and leaves my texts unread. He hasn't paid anything. He saw both kids now teens in Aug which I paid for their flights over and back and for me to bring ds who is under 16 . Both in full time education. Dd going to uni with huge costs . Am so broke. Is there anything I can do to make him pay. I think he's realized it will be difficult to enforce as I'm in Uk now. Anyone any experience of trying to enforce payment from here. I've looked online and MDC seems the way to go but it does seem a bit toothless.

@ThingyThings he's self employed. Doesn't declare a lot of it . He's dodgy AF

So I'm solely responsible for uni costs. That really sucks doesn't it

Lots of the advice you’ll get won’t necessarily be relevant because your court order is from Ireland and because you’ll need to use REMO to collect.

Speak to the REMO team - they are good at what they do. I suspect yours will be an easier case as well as you’re trying to have an Irish order enforced in Ireland. They tend to be more proactive of a case doesn’t involve mountains of work for them!

There is something which says your daughter can take her dad to court for uni support of there is nothing in your financial order about hnincosts... given you are separated... ot maybe you need to be divorced...

Worth double checking about the divorce papers. I know here in Australia you have a limited time to lodge papers for them to be valid.

Serve him right if his inheritance gets included in the asset division at a later stage.

@Ceci03 you can apply directly to the court where the order was made, you may not need legal representation.

https://services.courts.ie/Family-Law/maintenance/maintenance-not-being-paid/how-to-apply-to-recover-arrears-of-maintenance-in-the-district-court

@TheFoz thanks so much. I can definitely do the first part but I can't attend court as I live in Uk. Maybe someone can stand in for me. Thanks again I didn't know this.

If your finance order was finalised then no you couldn't claim. If however you didn't get a finance order, then yes you can.

Finance order is separate to a divorce.