We've only had the Decree Absolute for a couple of months but XH is already messing me about. Under the court order he must pay £650 a month child support for 2 DCs. No spousal maintenance - I stupidly thought that if he was just paying for the children he might be less vexatious. He is making his own unilateral calculation of what he owes (as set out to me in email and then ahandy spreadsheet!)and then making spurious deductions of his own choosing - including what it costs him to feed the DCs when he as them! He is £900 in arrears already and in a week will be in arrears for November as well.
Since this is a court-ordered amount, he is obviously in breach and I would like to make sure he keeps to the agreement. Not least because his children deserve to be supported by him and he does not get to be a toe-rag to them as well as me.
My solicitor says I could go back to the court and claim arrears and costs but would not advise it for a 'small' sum. I'm thinking that this is how he means to go on unless I stand up to him. Is there anything I can do to enforce this order - without recourse to a solicitor? Surely if the Court orders it and one of the parties is blatantly in breach, the court can demand action?
I don't really want to hire my solicitor all over again just after I've got my longed-for DA, and I certainly don't fancy court - but what can I do to stop this right now? If I let him get away with it now, he will carry on and on and it will drive me mad.
Thanks for any help.