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  • thorsoak
    thorsoak Posts: 7,166 Forumite
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    Didn't the thought of how you might support yourself when you left your ex occur to you before you left him? Hadn't you made any contingency plans? I know that I would have done so!
  • AnxiousMum wrote: »
    Your husband insisted you stayed at home raising the children and running the house? If so, in your divorce settlement you can ask for ancillary payments/spousal support. You may have to show why you have not worked since the kids went off to uni though, or give reasons why you haven't looked ahead and done some training or something so that when the kids went to uni, you had some qualifications.

    Where did the OP state that the husband insisted she stayed at home?
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