Posting for a friend.
Situation is ExH is a cheating sh*t.
Wife found out, kicked him out, he went to live with OW.
Divorce went through, but ExH was stalling on the financial settlement. At Enforcement Court hearing, ExH claims to have considerably less money so wants to reduce settlement.
It also comes out that ExH has remarried, but not to the OW, he has married the woman he was cheating on the OW with (are you still following?!?).
Reduction in finances is caused by having to support his original family with Wife 1 (my friend), 2nd family with OW (who now lives with her new partner in a property owned by the ExH) & ExH has now set up home overseas with 2nd wife.
Turns out 2nd wife is actually very wealthy and the ExH is essentially living off her & using his savings & dividends from investments to pay maintenance to wife 1 & OW.
However, this means his savings have reduced and he can no longer afford to pay off a chunk of wife 1s mortgage as originally agreed. She cannot afford to live there unless he does so & will be forced to move, change the kids schools etc.
So (finally) my questions are:
- Can he make a change to the original court order this late in the day? He was given time to sell some property to raise the money to pay his ex-wife, but has since spent it without paying her.
- Can his new wife's assets be taken into consideration? What needs to be paid to the ex-wife (my friend) is a drop in the ocean for wife 2 (she's private jet kind of loaded) but he's claiming poverty.
My friend's solicitor has been on holiday & it's been a nightmare trying to get info on this, they thought the Enforcement hearing would finalise everything and it's just opened a new can of worms.
Apologies for the long post & any help would be appreciated.