child maintenance

withabix

If it's not HIS child, there is no child maintenance to pay, unless he actually adopted the child.

He needs to get a Solicitor though, to help get the payout down as low as possible.

jesmin45

thanks once again for replies, he never adopted her, they were only married for 3 years. he is making a solicitors appointment hopefully for today as he has to return the ackowledgement of receipt to court within 7 days.

jesmin45

they were only married for 23 month not 3 yrs as said previously.

SandC

As others have said, he needs legal advice.

There is now way that he has to pay maintenance for a child that isn't his - he should not have to worry about that.

That she has already had £x from house sale doesn't go in her favour - in fact as she has stated she will 'take him for everything he has' then he should do exactly the same - see how quick she disappears when she realises it works both ways!

Let us know how he gets on.

jesmin45

Thanks SandC, he has an appointment tomorra with sol, I will keep you posted x

*Louise*

Good luck to him at the solicitors

Funny how she never wanted anything at frst - I wonder what happened to change her mind, did they have an argument or anything which might have made her want to hurt him financially?

I think he should get a counter claim in for a share of the 50k...not in the hope of getting any of it, but with the intention of getting her to rethink her claim.

jesmin45

hi louise, thats whats he's hoping to do, i will let you no what solicitor says.
all we can think is that when we got the first letter from her sol it had our wrong address number on so my partner gave the solicitor the correct one, the house she must of thought we lived at is not as nice a looking or as big a property as ours ( i don't want to sound snobby, just being honest) but the house me and my partner are in is jointly owned by the 2 of us and i put a lot of money into it from an inheritance. she had just had her house repossessed when she met my partner and came to the marriage with nothing.

nickyhutch

My guess is that she's gone to the solicitors to get everything formalised, and they've told her "oooh, you should ask for this, and this, and this, and......." and so on. That's what happened to me. We'd already agreed ourselves on who would get what, and who would pay what, and they started stirring things up, just to make more money, I guess.

Pee

They are still married now, though... not 23 months.

Speak to a solicitor. Her inheritance will be as much up for grabs as his share in your property.

I would start looking for a receipt for the money he gave her or some sort of proof, such as can the bank let you have a copy of the cheque?

Floss

Pee wrote: »

They are still married now, though... not 23 months.

Speak to a solicitor. Her inheritance will be as much up for grabs as his share in your property.

I would start looking for a receipt for the money he gave her or some sort of proof, such as can the bank let you have a copy of the cheque?

Also, you need to have evidence of your part in the house purchase, that it is in joint names and that you put your own inheritance into it - just in case. Would probably be useful for the solicitor to have anyway to refute any claims by her.