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HELP, Ex DP gone mad over child maintenance

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IrisMurdoch · 23/08/2007 09:55

If anyone can help, I'd be so grateful.
My dp and I are splitting up. We have sold our London flat.
He earns five times what I earn because I work part time ( I am a Mum!!).
He is saying that he is going to get a mortgage on his own but that if I get a mortgage using his financial contributions then he has to own part of my new home as well...
He says child maintenance is for 'the child' not for me to buy property with!!! I fail to see how buying a flat for my ds and I to live in isn't for 'the child' and think secretly he is being spiteful.
He suggests I rent. I would rather buy as my ds is going to school in a year.
I could afford a mortgage with his financial contributions, but not on my salary alone.
Does it make any difference at all what I do with the child maintenance, in the eyes of the law? Does he have any control? Really grateful for any advice, so worried....

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LittleBella · 23/08/2007 21:58

You can't rely on his maintenance payments, he'll find an excuse to stop paying them at some stage, he sounds like he resents you more than he cares about the welfare of his child.

This guy is shafting you. I'm glad you're going to a solicitor. He will cut up rough when he knows you're not going to accept his version of financial fairness - be prepared for massive ructions.

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