Household bills in a DRO

4ben4

I've been told living expenses in a joint budget need to be shared pro rata according to income. But then I read on here that an existing arrangement probably won't be challenged unless it's obviously unreasonable. Not sure what that would mean for me though.

I'm facing insolvency, but my wife's career is going much better at the moment. Recently I've had a well paid contract job, and she's been paying all the household bills so I could focus on my debts. Before that I was in a lower paid job, which brought in just enough for my minimum payments and our joint grocery shopping. My wife still paid all the other bills at that point.

Do you think it would seem reasonable if I go back to doing all the supermarket shopping (for food, cleaning stuff and some toiletries), but no other bills, and make a budget based on that, once my extra contract work ends? I could start doing that from October onwards, and if I have to go bust, it would probably be in December.

It just seems much easier than sharing out a percentage of each bill, when I can't be sure if I'm allowed to budget for all of them. Fatbelly mentioned "trigger figures", but I understand those are secret?