STBX reducing his income by 80% before completing Form E

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Have been waiting three months for STBX to complete his Form E. Now learned that he's changing jobs and reducing his income by almost 80% (£400,000 to £90,000). I was a SAHM for over twenty years and can't support myself yet. I've started a new career that takes time to build and have been applying for jobs but getting nowhere.

I'm slightly freaking out as I feel so helpless. My solicitors think this is a calculated ploy on STBX's part to reduce my settlement and say I should take him to court. We've got two kids at uni. Anyone else been through something similar? What did you do?

We sold the family home in '22 and I have a small flat that's less than half the size of the previous house, but I have bedrooms for both kids. DD lives with me. I don't want to lose this flat. It's home now. The kids and I both need this stability. I'm also near my support network in London and would struggle without them if I had to move somewhere cheaper.

I think STBX is trying to punish me for something even though he caused the split. Feeling so anxious about it all.

My divorce? This is not my thread! I am not the OP.

You are confusing me I think!

You do not know ANYTHING about my divorce/my lawyers/the country I am divorcing in/the very sensitive matter of my divorce/where I am from/where I got married/or if I have DCs/their sex and ages.

Any information you have found about me will have been heavily altered/diguised to protect me.

I repeat: this is not a thread about me or my situation. Please stop addressing me on this thread and posting on my old threads. I am passing on information I have been advised on, by English lawyers, to help the OP.
Thank you.

My ex did similar - left his job and cut his income by 50%. I got 92% of our assets as a result - he got huge penalties for conduct and non disclosure. “Wanting to wind down” or take a different career path or whatever was not considered at all valid by the judge - he was told he had to maximise his earning potential.
I didn’t get spousal ongoing but that was because I receive UC so judge said it would cancel out.

i was terrified frankly, i also hadn’t worked in years. But it was okay… don’t worry too much yet. get a very good solicitor!