Just after some advice. Currently going through a divorce. I can't afford a solicitor and am feeling rather overwhelmed by everything currently. Has anyone been through a similar situation.
The main points of it are..
He is proposing to pay the majority of the mortgage a month. (Interest only mortgage) £700 and I pay £350. In agreement that I do not ask for child maintenance. He currently gives me £60 a month for 2 children who live with me in the house. He earns 23K a year. I earn 11K a year, topped up with tax credits comes to about 19K.
Is this fair? I was of the understanding that he earns more than me, so should be paying more of the mortgage? Or is this not the case? And would a court view it differently? He doesn't want to sell the house until the children are 18, which I'm grateful for.
He lives with his mum in her house, and as far as I know pays very little if any rent, or bills. He goes on 2-3 holidays abroad a year coating 2-3K at a time, while I struggle to pay for a caravan holiday for a few hundred pounds. He spends his money like it's growing on a tree in the garden while I'm close to being in my overdraft every month.
I know I'm lucky he's agreed not to try and force a sale of the house, but are his solicitors proposals really fair? Should I really accept no maintenance payments EVER because he's paying more on the mortgage?
I'm so overwhelmed by it all right now
Please be kind, I'm fragile