STBEXH withholding money

[Vickyglitz]

I'm divorcing my husband who has now started withholding money for the nanny's salary. I pay her out of my account and he usually pays me back half. This month bc of the petition he's withholding. I'm not sure what to do. Small claims court?

No not small claims. You can apply for interim maintenance.

Have you seen a solicitor?

Is the nanny employed by you or the family? Can you afford to pay?

Until you've got a court order stating that he pays 50% of childcare costs, you're stuck.

You can open a maintenance case but unless you get a financial settlement which includes him paying maintenance as well as childcare fees then you will be stuck with just the maintenance and nothing else.

You could possibly ask the nanny if you can have 2 separate contracts? Your contract for your "days" and you pay her that. His contract for his days and he pays her.

Not sure he has to pay nanny fees unless the contract is with him?

Yes the contract is with both of us. But she isn't going to sue him! And all these months he's been paying me back at the end of each month.

What have you said to him? Have you tried "what are you playing at? We are divorcing, but neither of us are leaving the children. We are still both parents and we both have responsibilities towards them. The costs of childcare of our joint children is something we both need to pay. If the nanny fee came out of your account, how would you react if I simply refused to pay my half? I thought we could be grown up about this, for the sake of our children."

Yabu to have trusted anything he said op.
Hard lesson learned sadly.

What @Wenolikeexplodeythings said. But do it in writing. You sound like you are in a situation where you need to keep records of everything.