Hi there,
I divorced my husband in 2006 when our children were 11 and 12 years old. The court order stated that he should give me 25% of his salary for child maintenance. I waived spousal support. He was living and working in Singapore at the time and as there were no reciprocal arrangements for enforcing payments, he neglected to pay anything towards his children, knowing full well there was nothing I could do to enforce it. He also stole all the child benefit I had been saving as a means of helping them with a little something towards e.g. uni fees etc.
Although my children are now adults they have been struggling and I cannot afford to help them. They are saddled with uni debts and cannot even afford to leave home. I feel that he should be made accountable for paying what he has owed them all these years, but I have been unable to touch him. I have now discovered that he has moved to Australia. Does anyone know if whether Australia has reciprocal arrangements with the UK and whether it would be worth me spending some money to see a solicitor to try and claim backdated missing payments? He was\is earning a lot of money so we are talking a meaningful amount that could make a real difference to my children. He has never even been in contact with them all these years so it's no good them appealing to him directly. They have no idea I have found where he is and what he is doing.