Husband not supporting the family

Electric Sheep

pgj2015 wrote: »

This jumped out at me op, its up to the two of you to look after all children you have, if ye ever separated your husband would have to provide for you and all children, even if some of your kids are not his biological children, if he has taken your child on as his own before the separation.

OP, is the father of your oldest child paying you child support? If not, you should follow up on that. Every child has two parents who ought to be supporting it.

Wompa1

I'm with Lu, I don't get what the big deal is (Other than shorting on the 1,100 for the month and not digging into his savings to come up with it).

In the bigger picture on a month to month basis, the fact he has 90k in savings is irrelevant, that's his and he can do what he wants with it.

I'm guessing there's more expenses that you didn't list?

Also, are you suggesting that he also gets a child allowance separate to yours? or are you the only one getting the child allowance? It seemed like you were saying 'my child allowance goes to groceries and the rest goes into the joint account'...why not sit down and specifically figure out what the child allowance should go toward so it's fair on both of you. It should go to benefit the kids.

If I was you, I'd expect him to pay half of the bills...if you are paying everything for internet, tv etc. that's an easy win. Get him to contribute to those.

If you think he should just contribute more than you do, I would say that's a bit of an unfair expectation and you may need to budget a bit better or try to increase your earnings a bit.

Taltos

Mod note
As it's been nearly 3 weeks since the OP posted we're closing the thread with the hope that their question was answered.