Child maintenance and a self employed NRP - dividend income

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My child's father has become more and more unreliable with maintenance payments to the point that this month he has said he can't afford to pay and has refused to send anything at all. Despite the fact he has just booked a holiday (without my DS, he's never taken DS away) and is out socialising most weeks. So I know this isn't strictly true. They also had a £20k lottery win last year.

He normally pays me £170 a month, which puts his income at £25k per year. He is self employed through his own limited company and I think pays himself a mixture of a low income plus dividends. We split up 8 years ago and he was earning £40k back then, but I have no idea of his true income now/

Am I going to get completely shafted if I go through CMS, if most of his income is paid via dividends?

Bumping as he's now two months overdue with maintenance and I'm really struggling.

Look on companies house at his accounts and see what dividends he is paying himself.

Although you would hope that your ex would have given your child some money from the lottery win, he does not have to.
My ex actually sent my kids pictures of his holiday in Barbados and his first class travel, yet he can’t afford to take them boils my piss so much.

Different user accounts but same poster I presume?

If receiving nothing then receucit anything via cms has to be preferable.

You will have the right to ask for reviews etc and his assets and savings to be taken into account.

Sadly I imagine the 20k is long gone and isn't really a life changing amount so don't expect that to be hanging around.

Yes same username. I've budgeted expecting to receive that money and have transferred a large amount of money where I now can't access it thanks to a bank switch (that part is not his fault, I know!). Companies House doesn't show dividends paid for small companies.

I'm just struggling so much with knowing this loophole exists, it's infuriating. I can't get an attachment to his wages order either as he is his own employer!

Sorry, same poster, different username. I don't expect that my child should have had any part of the lottery win but it's just infuriating that months later I'm being told "tough luck" when asking him for his contribution towards our child.

Make the claim with cms, you haven't lost anything by doing so.