Would you fight for what your children are entitled to or just let this go? My ex hasn’t worked a day since he left, he has been on benefits the entire 8 years we have been split. Due to this he does not have to pay any maintenance (he should be paying £7 a week but he always has debts so they say he doesn’t have to pay) he hasn’t paid anything in a year now. I’m sure he does this deliberately to avoid paying, it’s as simple as taking out an advance on UC then he doesn’t have to pay.
With the cost of living increasing so much my food shopping alone is just ridiculously expensive (3 teens who are always hungry) not to mention all other things that come with raising children as you can imagine. Anyway ex lives in a 3 bed HA flat and rents out the rooms (it’s in central London so the rooms can be rented out for a lot of money) this keeps him going without having to work, he told me he earns enough to not have to work and 8 years ago he told me it was 2k a month so who knows what it is now. I know for a fact he is doing this but don’t have any physical evidence. He doesn’t declare any of it so it’s not counted for child maintenance when it should be.
I’m so sick of scraping by each month whilst he doesn’t have to pay a penny and probably laughing about it (he chooses not to see the children I would probably feel less bitter about it if he was a great father but he has no contact with them) he refused to have them at his as he was “renting his rooms out” I asked him to instead take them out for the day then but he couldn’t even stick to that and would constantly cancel and make excuses not to come even stuff like it’s raining so he isn’t coming, truth is he only wanted to see them in my house and if I didn’t allow it he wouldn’t see them so I never ever get a day off or any time to myself he hasn’t seen them since march last year 2023. Anyway would you fight this to try to get this unearned income looked into? Or just accept he has got away with it