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Can't afford maintenance

  • 09-07-2014 9:39pm
    #1
    truth44
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi , looking for some advice please.
    My partner has lost his job and has no income at all and is not able to get any social welfare payment at all as he had been self employed and lost all his business.
    His ex wife is a very malicious vindictive person and I have been paying his maintenance but just can't afford to pay it anymore as I have three children of my own and they are going with out so that I can pay her maintenance .
    She drives a new car , has a great social life and we are both under huge pressure to pay this but I shouldn't have to pay her anything .
    She knows I am paying my partners maintenance and said she didn't care less where he got the money as long as she got paid.
    Can he go back into court and explain that he has no income at all .
    I can't afford to keep paying it .
    Help


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  • #2
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    Why is your partner leaving you to deal with this? The maintenance is HIS and not yours! He should go back to court and explain his circumstances surely? IANAL, so I'm sure someone better qualified than I can help.

    Perhaps he could apply for legal aid to deal with it?


  • #3
    truth44
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭truth44


    I offered to help him out for a while because his ex wife has made our lives hell for the last few years .
    His cancer has come back and we just did not need the stress that she causes everyone .
    I'm ashamed to be a woman some times when I see how malicious and vindictive some are . It's truly shocking .
    I think a visit to the family courts will be back on the cards .


  • #4
    Sala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Sala


    truth44 wrote: »
    Hi , looking for some advice please.
    My partner has lost his job and has no income at all and is not able to get any social welfare payment at all as he had been self employed and lost all his business.
    His ex wife is a very malicious vindictive person and I have been paying his maintenance but just can't afford to pay it anymore as I have three children of my own and they are going with out so that I can pay her maintenance .
    She drives a new car , has a great social life and we are both under huge pressure to pay this but I shouldn't have to pay her anything .
    She knows I am paying my partners maintenance and said she didn't care less where he got the money as long as she got paid.
    Can he go back into court and explain that he has no income at all .
    I can't afford to keep paying it .
    Help

    You are not responsible for his maintenance. He needs to go to court to vary the order. He can do this himself (no solicitor) but the sooner the better as he will have to wait for a date. If he does not pay he is breach of the order, not you.


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