A bit of a long one but I will try and make it as short and sweet as possible.
When I was with my ex Our arrangement was I paid the gas and electric the food bill and any thing else that we needed, things for our daughter, clothes luxuries. He paid the rent and the council tax.
After we split after he cheated on me and walked out on me and my daughter. I started getting an influx of debt letters. He had not been paying any of the rent or council tax and he managed to hide this from me as he was always home before me and hid all the letters and correspondence. Any way 5 years later after paying thousands in council tax arrears and rent back. I finally snapped and I rang the council to ask why they were only pursuing me and not him. They told me because I work and he doesn't and claims benefits they are more likely to get a quicker payment from me that him. This seems totally unfair in my opinion. I got another letter last week from a debt collector for council tax from 2013 last week. Ive had enough. I rang them and gave them my ex's forwarding address but he's just simply stated he is not in a position to pay because his benefit is already subject to deductions. Couple this with the fact that I've never got a penny from him to help support our daughter. Although he does have her every weekend. Surely theres something I can do about this?
TIA