Going to try and cut a very long story short! Been separated from my exH for approaching 6 years. I divorced him - he cheated multiple times. It took us until a year ago to actually get divorced as he put blocks in the way at every opportunity and he was trying to screw me over financially - for example he would turn up to mediation having prepared nothing and waste the whole time. He did this until I ran out of money and was in debt and could afford no more and I eventually signed the family home over to him as the stress was making me ill and I was worried I'd lose my job :(. He runs his own limited company (he is the only employee though so this a front to avoid the IR35 regs and means he pays less tax) and this caused issues as he lied about his actual income throughout the divorce. He earns a HUGE amount (I know his day rate) and he eventually he agreed to pay child maintenance at the agreed government minimum level, for a percentage of his actual day rate salary and this was put in the court order. This court expires in two weeks and this morning he told me that he will not be paying this anymore.
I said I will go via CMS but he knows they only care about his declared income (he spends money directly from his company so he can pay himself less). He has offered to pay a level lower than the amount he should be, even for his supposed, declared income and has said if I challenge it, he will reduce his salary. He has actively stated he will be working to reduce his salary as much as possible over the coming months (I know he has recently added his GF to the company so I assume he plans to pay her, so that he can not pay himself much). So what do I do? Do I go to CMS and accept he will just lower his income even more? Do I let him get away with it and accept he will pay less than one day's pay a month for his two kids that live with me (he sees them one night a week and EOW)? I fell trapped and once again, this nasty bastard is controlling my life. It just feels so unfair.