My ex and I separated a year ago. We are still living together but our house has sold.
We have one child.
I wanted to take everything through the solicitors regarding the divorce because I applied for divorce immediately. My ex went berserk about this and said There would be no solicitors involved.
My ex insisted that we have Mediation and would not stop going on about it.
We have had three mediation sessions. The last one was absolutely terrible where my ex was making demands of wanting maintenance for the next three years. Despite the fact that we are sharing childcare, 50-50 and I have already offered to pay the full nursery fees and any other costs for our child.
we both earn the same wage.
My ex chose the mediator and it seemed at first that the mediator was trying to get me to make these maintenance payments which I said I wouldn't.
We are due to have our final mediation my ex cancelled it
I have my ex told me that we can compose an email together of what it is that we want to send it to the mediator and the mediator will write it up and send it to the George. My ex is miraculously given up on the idea of me, paying maintenance And have said they're happy for me to just pay the nursery fees.
I phone the mediator because I was highly suspicious of this and she said this is not true at all. She said she had a conversation with my ex where she explicitly told my ex that she cannot write up any paperwork unless we go for our final session. The mediator told me if we don't do this we will need to go fully through our solicitors otherwise it will be left open that my ex can claim more money at a later date.
I told my ex I want us to have our final mediation session, but my ex has gone mad saying the mediator is a con artist And there is no way we are going back at all to the mediator unless I fully pay for the Mediation session.
My ex said we are now to complete the paperwork ourselves and do it that way. I don't trust this one bit. Can anyone make sense of this and the reason why they cancelled the last session?