[Solved] Maintenance and self employed

hi,

if he sees he could be out of work for a long time, he could sign up to benefits. if he shows proof to CMS, they will make him pay £7 a week in maintenance.

sounds like they don't know what their doing.
have a look at this: https://www.dad.info/forum/child-maintenance/49813-lost-my-job-amd-arrears

Thanks Bill that’s our next step to contact them and see if we can get any help.

I'm in a similar situation because as a contractor I got laid off for 6 weeks and didn't pay my ex over the 2 calendar months this fell into but then paid her the proportion I had worked in the months where I had worked partly once I started earning again.

I should also add that the CMS were given no jurisdiction in our case because the judge felt they are hopeless and to be fair the evidence I had from dealing with them was that they are totally incompetent.

I'm currently in court proceedings brought by her but I have no feel as to what is going to happen.

Hi Rakeem,

whats going on in your court case at present, if you dont mind sharing?

No I don't mind!

But it's not a lot at the moment - I'll be happy to share when something actually does happen.

Just in the bit where we're looking at mutual form E's.

Thanks for sharing. Am I understanding correctly, your ex taken you to court because you missed 2 months payments? Is this even possible? We’ll be missing our first payment this week but purely because this is unavoidable. We paid this week and left our own family with £4 in the bank. Surely this isn’t justifiable. I support my husband having a financial commitment to his chicken and if I though for a second they’d go without I’d be fighting harder. But I know his ex and her husband are not short of a penny or two and this is what’s becoming more frustrating. But then I also don’t want my husband having to go through court etc.

There has to be a way out surely

Yes - you are understanding correctly! In fact I couldn't work in those two months due to various regulatory requirements that had expired and needed to be re-submitted!

But, I don't want to make out that I was homeless or anything like that, I'm very fortunate to be in the position I'm in (and I don't just mean because I've divorced my ex!!) - but many people have it much tougher than I do.

But when you lose your job, without hindsight you don't know when you're going to be employed again! Towards the end of my spell I was pretty much maxed out on credit and debit cards.

I informed her early also (I wasn't given much notice).

But yes, you can go back to court over anything - the real reason she applied was in retribution for me returning to court for enforcement of contact which she has been violating massively since the marital breakup!