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not sure if here or legal but does this seem right to you - XH walks out, I get nothing and have to sort his shit?

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SpandexIsMyEnemy · 28/11/2008 09:14

is basically what the solicitor told me yesterday!

we split up in sept 2007, he went away with the lads came home and said I don't love u I want a divorce. subsequently came to light he's been seeing someone else (OW) for about 6 months prior to this incl being up with her (althou this is my suspicions - funny as he was there on a 'course' with one other apparently while I was at home having a m.c literally) and when I asked him to stay behind n someone else to go I was told 'well that's not fair on them to stitch them up - erm wife m.c tosser. anyhow.

our whole relationship he's been verbally/emotionally abusive, controlling, manipulative, physically abusive at times.

We have HUGE debts all int he name of his materialism & basically spending spending and more spending to keep up with what other people have.

my personal opinion on him is he wants some who will hang on his every word and worship him (I didn't/couldn't - DS etc) h3e wants all focus & attention on him, anyhow the whole time we were together i've struggled alone to get everything I have and fought hard for it all. and sorted out his shit when he's made cock ups (ie re working the budgets so much all the tiem coos he can't handle his cash)

writing it down I can't beleive how bad things got - and this isn't it all.

anyhow it took a lot for me to get to the solicitors yesterday, and she assessed me for legal aid (which apparently I can have) but have to pay £50 per hour? - I can't bloody afford that!!!! I have a claim for maintenance spoucal maintenance NONE of his pension (which tbh is the bit that's pissed me off most - not that i'm a money grabbiing moo but to have the option of going after some of it) - after all in 12 years he'll get a lump sum of approx £100K plus approx £15K per year to live on) but apparently I get nothing cos of how long we were together - forget the fact I've followed him & his career all over the bloody country.

she pointed out i'm in a vunerable position (no shit sherlock) and as XH's name is on my lease if he chose to he could walk into this hosue when ever he wanted althou it's not his iycwim, hes never lived here etc etc.

so in september when we do go for it after the seperation for 2 years XH will ahve to pay (which he won't cos he can't afford it apparently) so that means I will - but then of course you have to go to mediation for the legal aid cert which XH won't do cos he's a nob. (has prev told me he won't do it)

she said I can divorce him on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour or adultery - neither he will admit so it's no good bothering with either.

so lets put this into perspective here - I've split form XH - left the marital home (married quarters) we have no assets between us - but a load of debts, (XH is paying those at the mo) I now have a shit credit record as a consequence, I'm struggling and yet again still fighting for everything here, and juggling everything while he's jsut picked up fucked off n not looked back - he gets to keep everyth0ing (I have the household possessions etc) but he can now go out & get brand new laptops etc etc etc and then bitch to me he has no money??? (erm well sell your bloody Xbox360 then or new laptop (he already has 1 and a main comp I might add.

Where is the justice and fairness in all of this???? is it right?? sorry it's a rant, and it prob is right but I mean yet again i'll be wiping his fucking arse if I want him out of my life - yet again I pay and sort it out/struggle on while he walks away a clean slate and gets away with everything.

I want this shit over and I want him out of my life for good (bit of course there's DS so he never will be fully) it really feels like i'm now having to pay him for the privalige of abusing me for so many years (we were together 8 in all)

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SpandexIsMyEnemy · 28/11/2008 09:15

ooh sorry that's long!

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SpandexIsMyEnemy · 28/11/2008 09:15

ooh sorry that's long!

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LittleBella · 28/11/2008 09:18

Get another solicitor

SpandexIsMyEnemy · 28/11/2008 09:20

i'm going to try CAB bella - but can I ask thou i've signed something or other for the legal aid forms bit and she's set a file up - she asked me if i'd signed one with anyone else I said no (I haven't.)

apparently they do military law as well - doesn't seem like it to me tbh. when I said well XH has looked into the pension & I can have 1/3 for 3 years as the other 2 of the marriage I was working?? she cut me short and said well there is a calculation??

I had a free half hour and that was all.

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Lauriefairycake · 28/11/2008 09:27

Obviously you need to claim on that 100k lump sum and his pension.

Why are you divorcing him? Let him do it, the longer you stayed married in name the more claim you have. Wait until you have been separated the legal amount (5 years?) and then get an easy divorce.

or if he wants to actually do the divorce let him pay for it.

Can you get out the lease and move somewhere else so that he can't come in?

I think you need to pay a solicitor - a good one instead of just the free half hour and get some proper pension advice

good luck

dsrplus8 · 28/11/2008 11:58

your lawyer is shite! get a another. you need a legal seperation, so if he accrues anymore debt you are NOT liable for it. get onto the CAB pronto.are you scotland or england? the laws are a wee bit different! im sorry for you

SpandexIsMyEnemy · 28/11/2008 12:02

i'm in england - tbh he can't accurle any more debt - the level we have means neither of us can't even open a bank account let alone get credit. i'm not worried on this front.

tbh I know for a fact he'll say he can't afford a divorce (or he thinks he can get it for for free??)

the woman yesterday tbh the more I think about it the more patronising she was - she turned around and said if u think that calculation was big you should see them for the other forms trying to look impressive - thing is thou i'm a book keeper/accounts clerk by trade, i'm studying for a maths degree (the foundation levels) does she really think I don't know about the calculations??

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hauntedcitylover · 28/11/2008 12:34

The solicitor I saw for consultation (costing £200) didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know and said all would be OK if I lived in Doncaster (she was referring to high cost of property in the SE) and that H (now ex) and I should split any equity and both go for a two bedroom flat.

I did my divorce without a a solicitor in the end but we did have a fairly amicable agreement.

And we haven't ended up both buying 2 bed flats - I am renting and he is living with new DP.

It is sickening I agree that they seem to move on with ease and you are left with all the shit. I bailed out ex for the last six months of our crap marriage and also stepped in at other times as well.

I would see another solicitor and also eventually you will be able to rise above it.

I am getting there.

nymphadora · 28/11/2008 12:41

CAn you not get any evidence about the OW?
No man would actually admit it in a divorce, you need to prove it then you can get rid.

Get another solicitor cos yours seems cr*p

hauntedcitylover · 28/11/2008 14:46

Don't think he has to admit to unreasonable behaviour but he does have to sign the papers.

SpandexIsMyEnemy · 28/11/2008 14:54

he won't admit to anything. as far as he's concerned this is all me and my fault - we've just had another ruck as i'm now getting pissed off with him turning up to get DS when he chooses on a friday afternoon - I mean can I not have a life as well now?? so apparently the 4.30 we agreed now doesn't fit - cos he's just finished work now - don't believe that for one minute thou.

can't get anything on the OW they're both adamant nothing happened while XH & I were together - (ie nothing pyhsical) - but I know he was in daily contact/msn/seeing her etc etc. just seemeed funny as well the month before we split he was meant to be on an ex in the same place as she lived apparently with someone else (but he took all of his own clothes)?? this would be while I was at home having a m.c - literally. (tosser!)

still ho hum, am going to get other advice on it now I think and go from there.

if he wants this divorce he can pay for it all - and I deffo want set times for seeing DS, not to mention he's not welcome to stay in my house anymore after he's signed this lease for another year - while he could tell the letting agents (they don't accept HB/council tenants) he would then be willingly making his son homeless & I don't think he'd stoop that low.

think it's about time I grew a back bone where he's concerned/all of this.

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