Hope someone out there can advise me on this?
Ex husband is refusing to pay child maintenance this month and says possibly subsequent months too, as I have had a holiday with my daughter and he says the maintenance money will help ensure he has a holiday too. Child maintenance is £250 a month by consent order. He says he refuses to go overdrawn for me.
He says I can take him to court about it as he wants to ask re visitation rights. He has no restriction on seeing his 12year old daughter who lives with me, but he wants her to stay overnight at his new house with him, his girlfriend that he left me for and her 3 year old son. Daughter says she will stay if girlfriend and her son aren't there. His girlfriend has family nearby so this would be workable but they don't want this.
We have a house we both own and rent out. It was meant to go into his name at the time of divorce (December 2010), but he has not chased this up, application has been done, so it is still in our joint names. I pay the mortgage etc on this and maintain it and get the rent. I was passing it to him as he does nothing with it and I'm sick of the responsibility. He says he should have half the rent as I'm getting the profits. As I paid the £12000 deposit for it I'm not actually making any profit, so his argument it meaningless.If I passed over the paying of the mortgage etc and the rent to him whilst it's in joint names, I would then have to carry on with all the responsibilities and he wouldn't be motivated to chase the transfer of equity (I've been chasing it, but he hasn't). He says he will bring this up in court as well.
Our divorce was a bit of a nightmare for me as he refused to get a solicitor so I ended up having to have his questions answered by my own, which was costly for me.
If I take him to court for non payment of child maintenance then can he actually bring up these other issues he has or will it just focus on the non payment of child maintenance?