Can my ex terminate case without telling me?

[Edinburghgirl2]

Hi,
My ex had employed a lawyer in order to try and get access to my daughter. His lawyer had been in contact regularly with mine until about a month ago when I agreed to certain things that he had asked for. My lawyer passed this information on to his but we've heard nothing since. Not even a confirmation email from his lawyer.
Would it be possible that he's decided against continuing with this? Or if that were the case would his lawyer have to inform mine that hes decided to do that? Both him and his lawyer seem to have fallen off the face of the earth.

When this happened with me he'd run out of money and stopped paying the solicitor. It doesn't mean he won't fe-emerge or deal directly with your solicitor at some point which will cost you more. Is there any harm from your side in not reacting and leaving ball in his court

I think he has dropped the lawyer as he can’t pay the fees. They rack up pretty fast and you owe thousands quickly. This would be why his solicitor has “gone quiet”, they will write eventually if your solicitor tries to reach them and say they no longer act on his behalf .

@desperadodogface
I'm getting my hopes up that he's just decided his not interested anymore and that's why we've heard nothing for a month.
Did your ex's lawyer contact yours to tell you that he wasnt continuing or was it just silence on their side?

No, silence. I wasn't surprised to learn he'd left an unpaid bill. Solicitors won't even write a courtesy email to confirm without being paid. You could pay your solicitor to call his sol's secretary and ask but I wouldn't personally. My ex "woke up" a few weeks later and decided to represent himself which was pretty awful tbh. He knew my sol would charge me for every email he sent her and my god he milked it while also refusing to pay maintenance. It was hideous. I hope your ex has lost interest and stays away

@Womblemumma @desperadodogface
Thank you for your advice. I really hope he's just found something else to occupy him and gone away. I'll give it until Monday and if I've still not heard anything I'll ask my lawyer to contact them (I'm still paying by the month for this lawyer so it will be nice if I don't have to do that as well)